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Why I Built dev-starter
I was tired of setting up the same boilerplate for the tenth time, so I built a VS Code extension to do it for me.
Boredom is a great product manager
dev-starter started as pure laziness. I was setting up the same folder structure, the same eslint config, the same env boilerplate for probably the tenth freelance project in a row, and something in me just refused to do it an eleventh time.
So I built a VS Code extension that scaffolds a proper project setup in seconds. Not because I wanted to be an open source maintainer, but because future me deserved fewer clicks.
- Consistent folder structure across every new project
- Pre-wired configs so I stop copy pasting from old repos
- One command instead of twenty minutes of setup
The best tools are the ones you build because you're too impatient to keep doing something manually.
Same instinct led to smart-passphrase and upi-pay-kit on NPM, both scratched a real itch from actual freelance projects. If something annoys me twice, it usually becomes a package by the third time.
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