I built Greening because I was tired of boilerplating the same setup over and over again. GitHub Actions, README templates, virtualenvs, docs, deployment pipelines — it adds up fast. And even worse, it slows you down right at the moment you're most excited to build something new.
Hey! My name's Chris Greening and I'm a software developer from the New York metro area with a diverse range of engineering experience - beam me a message and let's build something great!
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Greening is an open source automation tool that eliminates the friction of starting, documenting, and shipping your next software project. Whether it's a Python package, a portfolio project, or a polished GitHub Pages site, Greening handles the scaffolding, Git setup, documentation, and even optional Google Analytics integration — all in one command.
Why I Built It
As a solo dev, context-switching kills momentum. I found myself avoiding small projects simply because I didn't want to spend an hour setting up the boilerplate. So I asked:
What if I could automate the launch of my projects just like I automate my tests, builds, and deployments?
Greening grew from that idea.
What It Does
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greening new creates a new project, scaffolds a clean structure, and optionally sets up Git, virtual environments, and GitHub remotes.
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greening deploy generates and deploys a beautiful Jekyll-based GitHub Pages site — perfect for project documentation.
- 📊 Google Analytics integration? Just drop your tag into the config, and you're done.
- ⚙️ Customizable YAML-based config with opinionated defaults that get out of your way.
Philosophy
Greening is built on a few key ideas:
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Ship fast. Don’t let tooling slow down your ideas.
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Repeatable and scalable. Make every project look clean and polished from day one.
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Beautiful by default. Your software deserves a good first impression.
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Automation-first. If you’ve done it more than twice, Greening should probably do it for you.
What’s Next
I’m working toward a plugin-based ecosystem so you can extend Greening to match your exact workflow. Want to auto-generate CHANGELOGs? Autodoc your Python code? Auto-post releases to social media? That’s where we’re headed.
You can check out the project on GitHub here 👉
greening is an opinionated, lightweight project automation tool for solo developers and creative coders. With just a few commands, you can scaffold a production-ready Python package — complete with docs, tests, GitHub Actions workflows, PyPI packaging, and an auto-deployed GitHub Pages site. No boilerplate. No setup hell. Just instant polish.
🌱 Greening
greening is an opinionated, full-stack project automation tool for solo developers and creative coders.
With just a few commands, you can scaffold a production-ready Python package — complete with docs, tests, GitHub Actions workflows, PyPI packaging, and an auto-deployed GitHub Pages site
No boilerplate. No setup hell. Just instant polish.
Table of Contents
🍃 Why greening?
Most devs never ship their tools — not because the code isn’t good, but because the surrounding friction is too high:
- How do I structure the project?
- How do I set up CI/CD, tests, and linting?
- How do I make it look legit?
- How do I talk about it?
greening answers all of that in one opinionated workflow.
🌿 Key features
greening automates your project creation pipeline:
✅ greening init…
