RT: np

np - new sbt project generation made simple(r)

As pointed out in the comments by @0__ below, there's another project that aims at simplifying how new projects in sbt are created - np. That seems exactly what you needed.

In https://github.com/softprops/np#for-sbt-013 there's a complete description of what's needed to set it up and create new sbt projects using the utility that boils down to:

1. Registering the sbt plugin. Add the following to ~/.sbt/0.13/plugins/np.sbt.

   addSbtPlugin("me.lessis" % "np" % "0.2.0")
   

2. Define a custom global overrides in ~/.sbt/0.13/np.sbt. Add the following to the file.

   seq(npSettings:_*)
   
   (NpKeys.defaults in (Compile, NpKeys.np)) ~= {
     _.copy(org="me.lessis", version="0.1.0-SNAPSHOT")
   }
   

3. Use the np plugin's command - np. Create an empty directory for the sbt project and run sbt np.

   jacek:~/sandbox/stackoverflow
   $ mkdir np-sandbox/
   jacek:~/sandbox/stackoverflow
   $ cd np-sandbox/
   jacek:~/sandbox/stackoverflow/np-sandbox
   $ sbt np
   [info] Loading global plugins from /Users/jacek/.sbt/0.13/plugins
   [info] Set current project to np-sandbox (in build file:/Users/jacek/sandbox/stackoverflow/np-sandbox/)
   [info] Generated build file
   [info] Generated source directories
   [success] Total time: 0 s, completed Dec 7, 2013 12:51:42 PM
   jacek:~/sandbox/stackoverflow/np-sandbox
   $ tree
   .
   ├── build.sbt
   ├── src
   │   ├── main
   │   │   ├── resources
   │   │   └── scala
   │   └── test
   │       ├── resources
   │       └── scala
   └── target
       └── streams
           └── compile
               └── np
                   └── $global
                       └── out
   
   12 directories, 2 files
   jacek:~/sandbox/stackoverflow/np-sandbox
   $ cat build.sbt
   organization := "me.lessis"
   
   name := "default"
   
   version := "0.1.0-SN