--- title: Angreal Home type: page --- # Angreal --- ## Angreal is meant to: - allow the consistent creation of projects - provide consistent methods for interacting with projects ### Quick Start 1. Install via `pip` 2. Initialize a project from a template 3. Use the template ```bash $: pip install 'angreal>=2' #pip install angreal will also work $: angreal init https://github.com/angreal/python.git ``` --- ## What is it? Angreal is an attempt to solve two problems that I was running into in both my personal and professional life as a data scientist and software developer. I do things often enough that they needed automation, I don\'t do things so often that I remember all of the steps/commands I might need to get them done. Angreal solves this problem by allowing me to remember by forgetting : I only have to remember the command to do something not the actual steps to complete the task. ### How does it solve these challenges ? Angreal provides a way to template the structure of projects and a way of executing methods for interacting with that project in a consistent manner. These methods (called tasks) travel with the project so while templated initially, they\'re customizable to the project - allowing some level of flexibility in how a task functions between projects. ### Why 2.0 ? The original angreal was built on top of a number of python modules that were under active development and used by a number of other projects. The nature of the application itself meant that core application found itself in dependency hell regularly - and became rather annoying to use. The 2.0.0 release is a complete rewrite that uses [Rust](https://www.rust-lang.org/) to provide a compiled binary with the goal that it will require no external python dependencies.