Hey y’all
Im back to this subreddit with another idea after the informative feedback on my last post.
What do you think of a “QuickStart Dev Repo”, filled with quickstart guides from a variety of frameworks and packages?
Like if you wanted the quickstart guide to a NextJs project, PostGres DB, Docker Compose, LangChain, etc… you can find it all in one repo (or web-app).
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Obviously, the big question here is: why not just Google the quickstart guide that you want?
Here are some advantages to a central, quickstart repository:
Unified, modern interface: The repository will offer a consistent interface, along with a robust, concise guide (series of steps) to the package you wanted to try out.
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Hey y’all
Im back to this subreddit with another idea after the informative feedback on my last post.
What do you think of a “QuickStart Dev Repo”, filled with quickstart guides from a variety of frameworks and packages?
Like if you wanted the quickstart guide to a NextJs project, PostGres DB, Docker Compose, LangChain, etc… you can find it all in one repo (or web-app).
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Obviously, the big question here is: why not just Google the quickstart guide that you want?
Here are some advantages to a central, quickstart repository:
Unified, modern interface: The repository will offer a consistent interface, along with a robust, concise guide (series of steps) to the package you wanted to try out.
Faster lookup and filtering: Many packages are set up differently depending on the OS, tech-stack and license. As such, the quickstart repo can offer a series of buttons at the top (like your OS, tech-stack and licensing preferences), which will only display the quickstart guides that work for you.
Visible, public opinion: Some quickstart guides might not clearly mention the security flaws associated with the guide. Also, some quickstart guides are simply not updated, and they may use deprecated or error-prone installation methods. As a result, the quickstart repo will include visible banners and warnings that warn users about a step in the quickstart guide, along with possible alternatives.
An API for coding agents: Many people use LLMs or coding agents to write some code. When writing boilerplate, quickstart code, coding agents may use an older or cached guide, or it may even recommend the commercial (like cloud-hosted) version of a package because that’s what the original quickstart guide recommends. Instead, having an accurate and OSS-oriented quickstart repo with an accessible, public API can help improve the responses of coding agents.
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So, what do y’all think? I appreciate your critical feedback on this idea.