Its not necessarially that I "need" a skeleton. If I needed to, I know I could do it all manually. I have manually configured a Node.js app before. But wouldn't

Its not necessarially that I "need" a skeleton. If I needed to, I know I could do it all manually. I have manually configured a Node.js app before. But wouldn't it be a lot more prudent use of my time to start programming instead of doing project set-up, when I'm learning a new programming paradigm? Why do you think we fork repos?