konst is a command-line tool for polyglot developers to define constants and snippets across projects.
The idea for this tool is from a conversation I had with a friend who is also a software developer:
Jeff:
here's an ambitious project
what about a tool or something
a preprocessor kind of thing
that lets you define constants across different languages
so you can truly have just one place where that constant lives
Sean:
could be a good command line tool
The constants would be defined in a .konst file in your home directory. You could annotate individual lines with the language or stack you’re using that constant for (say, @php or @node), or you could define blocks of constants for an individual language.
When you’re creating a new project, you can run konst init and it’ll do its best to infer the type of project you’re working on. You can also run konst init python to specify a language manually.
It will create a file in the root of the project (or a contextually valid location, like a /constants folder—this could also be configurable by language) with your constants that you can then include or import into your project wherever you want to