rapidkit-core 0.3.8

Community-built rapid automation toolkit for makers who ship with heart

RapidKit Core

RapidKit Core is the open-source RapidKit engine and CLI for scaffolding, operating, and evolving production-ready backend projects.

• Package: rapidkit-core
• CLI: rapidkit
• Website: https://www.getrapidkit.com/
• Docs: https://www.getrapidkit.com/docs
• Repository: https://github.com/getrapidkit/rapidkit-core
• Issues: https://github.com/getrapidkit/rapidkit-core/issues
• Discussions: https://github.com/getrapidkit/rapidkit-core/discussions

Useful tools

• RapidKit npm CLI: https://github.com/getrapidkit/rapidkit-npm
• npm package: https://www.npmjs.com/package/rapidkit
• RapidKit VS Code Extension: https://github.com/getrapidkit/rapidkit-vscode
• VS Code Marketplace: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=rapidkit.rapidkit-vscode

What you get

• Production-grade scaffolding for FastAPI and NestJS
• Consistent module lifecycle: add, remove, upgrade, diff, reconcile, rollback
• Project-aware commands for local development and CI workflows
• Standardized project structure with .rapidkit/ metadata

Install

# Recommended: isolated CLI
pipx install rapidkit-core

# Or: in the current interpreter
python -m pip install -U rapidkit-core

rapidkit --version
rapidkit --help

Quick start

# Interactive wizard
rapidkit create

# Or: non-interactive
rapidkit create project fastapi.standard my-api

cd my-api
rapidkit init
rapidkit dev

CLI surface

Global commands

• rapidkit version, rapidkit project, rapidkit list, rapidkit info, rapidkit commands
• rapidkit create, rapidkit add, rapidkit modules, rapidkit frameworks
• rapidkit upgrade, rapidkit diff, rapidkit merge, rapidkit optimize
• rapidkit doctor, rapidkit license, rapidkit checkpoint, rapidkit snapshot
• rapidkit reconcile, rapidkit rollback, rapidkit uninstall
• rapidkit --tui, rapidkit --version, rapidkit -v

Project commands

Inside a generated RapidKit project:

• rapidkit init
• rapidkit dev
• rapidkit start
• rapidkit build
• rapidkit test
• rapidkit lint
• rapidkit format
• rapidkit help

Common examples

rapidkit create project
rapidkit create project fastapi.standard my-api
rapidkit create project nestjs.standard my-api
rapidkit create project fastapi.standard my-api --output /path/to/workspace

cd my-api && rapidkit init
rapidkit dev
rapidkit add module auth
rapidkit modules list

Pre-releases (RC)

Pre-releases are published as Python pre-releases and may be marked as pre-releases on GitHub.

• Releases: https://github.com/getrapidkit/rapidkit-core/releases

pipx install --pip-args="--pre" rapidkit-core
# or
python -m pip install --pre -U rapidkit-core

Contributing

• Start here: https://github.com/getrapidkit/rapidkit-core/tree/main/docs/contributing
• Bug reports: https://github.com/getrapidkit/rapidkit-core/issues
• Ideas and Q&A: https://github.com/getrapidkit/rapidkit-core/discussions

For local source development in this repository:

make install-dev
make test

License

MIT — see https://github.com/getrapidkit/rapidkit-core/blob/main/LICENSE