Introducing .gitignore Guru

I've been dissatisfied for a while with the .gitignore generator I've historically used. It works, but it doesn't work the way I want it to, and it categorizes templates inconsistently, which can lead to content duplication in a downloaded template. I recently spent some time digging through the existing alternatives online and finally decided that none of them worked the way I wanted and I'd just have to write my own.

Obviously, this announcement is an indication that I have done so! Introducing .gitignore Guru, a fast and free tool to create a custom .gitignore file for the technologies, frameworks, and tools that you use! It is built using Next.js, and is published under the MIT license! Behind the scenes, .gitignore Guru uses a bundled copy of the .gitignore template repository provided by GitHub, let them know - or open a pull request yourself to add it!

This has been a massively educational project - it's the first non-static site I've built solo in NextJS (or React for that matter) other than the quick pass I did for my site. As a result, I've learned a ton and will be reworking a fair bit of my site in the relatively near future. Stay tuned for more details coming soon!