Templates

#What a template is

A template is a finished, pre-built app with a brief attached. There are twelve: Habit tracker, Landing page, Personal CRM, Kanban board, Invoice tracker, Recipe box, Monthly budget, Workout log, Job applications, Reading list, Event page + RSVP, Metrics dashboard. Each tile shows a drawing of its first screen, a line about it and a tag (personal, work, finance, marketing).

Some are built phone-first, some for the web. Landing page and Event page + RSVP start from the Website starter; Metrics dashboard from the Internal tool starter.

#On the home page

The Templates section on getripping.com is for people who are not signed in. Tap a tile and:

1. The template's brief goes into the idea box, and the box scrolls into view.
2. The box remembers which template it came from.
3. When you press Get Ripping and create your account, the first build starts from that template's own files rather than from scratch, then applies your brief to them.

Tapping a Try: idea clears the template link.

#On Your apps

Signed in, the Your apps page keeps templates behind one line, Start from a template. Open it and tap a tile:

• The template's files are copied into a new project of your own at once. The tile reads Making it yours…. No build runs and no tokens are spent.
• The editor opens with the message "This is your own copy of the name template, ready to run. Tell me what to change."
• History shows one version, "Started from the name template".

If a template has not been built yet, the New project screen opens with its brief in the box, and a toast says why: "This template isn't built yet. Its brief is in the box instead."

#On New project

The New project screen has the same tiles under Or start from a template, and behaves the same way: a built template becomes a project and opens; an unbuilt one seeds the box. When a brief is seeded, Clear "name" empties it.

Under the tiles, Already have something? imports a zip (up to 25MB) or a repository from a connected GitHub account. The starter is laid down, the imported files sit beside it, and the first turn ports one into the other.

#Limits and errors

• A project from a template counts against your plan's app limit like any other. On Free that is one app; the message is "Free covers one app. Move up to Singularity on the Billing page to build more."
• A template's own project is a copy: changing yours never changes the template.
• "No such template." or "This template has no files yet." mean the tile could not be turned into a project; the brief route still works.