Open source is soil. It’s not just where we build — it’s where things grow.

The name Greening carries meaning on many levels.

Yes, it's my last name — but more importantly, it reflects the philosophy behind the project and the process it encourages. Greening is an action. A transformation. The turning of raw space into fertile ground.

This project is an attempt to bottle what has worked for me: an opinionated framework, tuned through experience, designed to help ideas take root with clarity and speed.

Chris Greening - Software Developer

Hey! My name's Chris Greening and I'm a software developer from the New York metro area with a diverse range of engineering experience - beam me a message and let's build something great!

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🌱 Growth Through Iteration

In nature, growth is uneven. Shoots twist toward the light. Some seeds don’t sprout. But the garden keeps expanding. The same is true in software. Version 0.1.0 isn’t perfect — but it’s alive.

Greening exists to make that early stage effortless — to remove friction from the planting process so developers can ship sooner and iterate faster. The first version doesn’t have to be flawless. It just has to start growing.


🌰 Tools Are Seeds

Every scaffold, every config, every deploy is a seed — small, but full of potential. Greening gives you tools that sprout quickly, so you can spend less time building the planter and more time tending the plant.

With expressive syntax and beautiful defaults, it clears the weeds so your work can flourish.

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🌿 Open Source Is Soil

The open-source ecosystem is a living commons. Code evolves. Ideas hybridize. Communities self-seed. In this shared soil, a single contribution can propagate far beyond its roots.

Greening is built for that environment. It’s not just an automation tool — it’s a substrate for creative, scalable, repeatable growth. Tweak it. Fork it. Grow your own extensions. Contribute back.


🌾 Greening, Together

This project is opinionated — not because there’s one way to build, but because strong soil grows strong roots. Greening reflects one approach that’s worked — and makes it easy to remix for your own.

If you're here, you’re already in the garden. Let’s see what we can grow.


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greening is an opinionated, lightweight project automation tool for solo developers and creative coders. With just a few commands, you can scaffold a production-ready Python package — complete with docs, tests, GitHub Actions workflows, PyPI packaging, and an auto-deployed GitHub Pages site. No boilerplate. No setup hell. Just instant polish.

🌱 Greening

greening is an opinionated, full-stack project automation tool for solo developers and creative coders.

With just a few commands, you can scaffold a production-ready Python package — complete with docs, tests, GitHub Actions workflows, PyPI packaging, and an auto-deployed GitHub Pages site No boilerplate. No setup hell. Just instant polish.

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🍃 Why greening?

Most devs never ship their tools — not because the code isn’t good, but because the surrounding friction is too high:

  • How do I structure the project?
  • How do I set up CI/CD, tests, and linting?
  • How do I make it look legit?
  • How do I talk about it?

greening answers all of that in one opinionated workflow.

User typing in commands greening init, greening new, and greening deploy and rapidly deploying a project


🌿 Key features

greening automates your project creation pipeline:

greening init