You know that feeling when you start a new project and spend

the first 20 minutes doing nothing productive?

Hunting for the Android keystore. Finding the right .env file.

Copying VS Code settings. Again. And again. Every. Single. Project.

I got tired of it. So I tried building something to fix it — coffee-installer.

How it works

Create a collection folder and point coffee-installer to it:

mkdir ~/.coffee-collection

echo '{ "baseSource": "~/.coffee-collection" }' > ~/.coffee.config.json

Add your reusable files to the collection:

mkdir -p ~/.coffee-collection/my-app/android/app

cp android/app/keystore.jks ~/.coffee-collection/my-app/android/app/

cp android/key.properties   ~/.coffee-collection/my-app/android/

Preview before installing:

$ coffee diff my-app

Diff — my-app (config)

  + add         android/key.properties

  + add         android/app/keystore.jks

  + add         frontend/.env.development.local

3 to add, 0 to overwrite, 0 to skip

Then install with one command:

$ coffee install my-app



📦 Installing my-app...

  ✅ copied android/key.properties

  ✅ copied android/app/keystore.jks

  ✅ copied frontend/.env.development.local

✅ my-app installed.

All commands

coffee list              # see everything in your collection

coffee diff my-app       # preview before installing

coffee install my-app    # install into current project

coffee pull my-app       # sync changes back to collection

Why I built this

I work across multiple projects — mobile apps, web backends, Flutter apps.

Every project needs the same credentials, the same IDE config, the same

environment files.

The alternative was a folder of files I'd manually copy every time, or

worse — storing credentials in a repo (never do this).

coffee-installer keeps everything in one local folder that never touches version control. It's not perfect yet, but it already saves me a lot of setup time.

Zero dependencies

The entire thing runs on Node.js stdlib only — no external packages,

nothing to audit, nothing that breaks when a dependency changes.

Try it