what i've found over the course of my career is that the most invaluable feature of boilerplate and scaffolding apps is to get a known-good build pipeline up an

what i've found over the course of my career is that the most invaluable feature of boilerplate and scaffolding apps is to get a known-good build pipeline up and running. a trick i've often found useful when migrating to a new framework is to autogen a starter project and then start copying bits of my existing project into it and getting them working. when i'm done, i usually understand the new system well enough to go backport my changes to the existing project (if i want to preseve git history) or simply start afresh once all my tests are passing. it is a sad commentary on the state of software development that the build process is the most complicated and headache-inducing part of exploring a new language or framework, but i've found that to be a constant across many languages and many years.