Kedro New
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https://youtu.be/uqiv5LAiJe0

Date: August 18, 2021

https://youtu.be/uqiv5LAiJe0

Kedro new is simply a wrapper around the cookiecutter templating library. The kedro team maintains a ready made template that has everything you need for a kedro project. They also maintain a few kedro starters, which are very similar to the base template.

What is Kedro </what-is-kedro/>

│ Unsure what kedro is, Check out yesterdays post on What is Kedro.

pipx
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I reccomend using pipx when running kedro new. pipx is designed for system level cli tools so that you do not need to maintain a virtual environment </virtual-environment/> or worry about version conflicts, pipx manages the environment for you.

The kedro team does not reccomend pipx in their docs as they already feel like there is a bit of a tool overload for folks that may be less familiar with

```
pipx kedro new
```

I like using pipx as it gives you better control over using a specific version or always the latest version, unlike when you run what you have on your system depends on when you last installed or upgraded.

Kedro New
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The kedro team also has a set of starters, by passing in --starter you can start with a different template. Here is an example with the kedro spaceflights starter.

```
pipx run kedro new --starter spaceflights

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Please enter a human readable name for your new project.
Spaces and punctuation are allowed.
 [New Kedro Project]: Spaceflights Complete

Repository Name:
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Please enter a directory name for your new project repository.
Alphanumeric characters, hyphens and underscores are allowed.
Lowercase is recommended.
 [spaceflights-complete]:

Python Package Name:
====================
Please enter a valid Python package name for your project package.
Alphanumeric characters and underscores are allowed.
Lowercase is recommended. Package name must start with a letter
or underscore.
 [spaceflights_complete]:

Change directory to the project generated in /home/u_walkews/git/spaceflights-complete

A best-practice setup includes initialising git and creating a virtual environment before running ``kedro install`` to install project-specific dependencies. Refer to the Kedro documentation: https://kedro.readthedocs.io/
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### Other versions of kedro with pipx

pipx not only ensures that you run the latest version, it can also run a very specific version.

```
pipx run --spec kedro==0.16.6 kedro new
```

kedro Virtual Environment </kedro-environment/>

│ The next post in this series will help you create your virtual environment for your new kedro project.