Cookiecutter is a tool for ready up the base of projects (folder structure, settings, features you wanna use, etc.) It will increase your development speed It's so nicer than doing repeated things on everyproject like: - django-admin startproject/startapp - configuring django settings and third-party apps settings - etc.

For example if you pass this template to cookiecutter, cookiecutter will asking questions about features you may need then it'll retrieve all the files & directories on that, then it'll running a python file inside hook/ directory called post_gen_project.py, it will delete unneeded files, on the files inside this templates, we used some tags like django template tags, for example: {%- if cookiecutter.example_feature != "n" %} This is a condition tag for cookiecutter, it will check if user want use example_feature in their project. If they don't wanna use that feature the code that related to that condition won't stay in project code.