Setting up a new project#

Running the cookiecutter#

FairDM provides a project cookiecutter at FAIR-DM/cookiecutter. This cookiecutter will create a new project directory with all the necessary files and folders to get started. To run the cookiecutter, you will need to have cookiecutter installed. If you don’t have cookiecutter installed, you can install it with pip:

pip install cookiecutter

Once you have cookiecutter installed, you can run the cookiecutter with the following command:

cookiecutter

You will be prompted to enter a project name. This name will be used to create a new directory in your current working directory. Once you have entered a project name, the cookiecutter will create a new project directory with all the necessary files and folders to get started.

Running the project#