Advanced Usage

• Components
  • Base Component Implementation Details
  • Included types of components
  • What is a component?
• Utility Functions
  • Files
  • Shell
  • Backend

How Zygoat Generators are Structured

A zygoat project generator consists of a set of components, which can be arbitrarily nested. zygoat provides a set of utility classes that cover common use cases for various components. The main two are the base Component class and the FileComponent class for copying files from a resource package to the generated project.

zygoat also provides a SettingsComponent that uses redbaron to allow you to programmatically modify Python files, mostly used for updating Django settings during project creation.