doc/docs/en/manuals/editor-templates.md

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title: Editor templates

brief: You can add your own custom project templates to the New Project window.

Editor templates

You can add your own custom project templates to the New Project window:

In order to add one or more new tabs with custom project templates you need to add a welcome.edn file in the .defold folder in your user home directory:

• Create a folder named .defold in your user home directory.
  • On Windows C:\Users\**Your Username**\.defold
  • On macOS /Users/**Your Username**/.defold
  • On Linux ~/.defold
• Create a welcome.edn file in the .defold folder

The welcome.edn file uses the Extensible Data Notation format. Example:

{:new-project
  {:categories [
    {:label "My Templates"
     :templates [
          {:name "My project"
           :description "My template with everything set up the way I want it."
           :image "empty.svg"
           :zip-url "https://github.com/britzl/template-project/archive/master.zip"
           :skip-root? true},
          {:name "My other project"
           :description "My other template with everything set up the way I want it."
           :image "empty.svg"
           :zip-url "https://github.com/britzl/template-other-project/archive/master.zip"
           :skip-root? true}]
    }]
  }
}

This will create the list of templates seen in the screenshot above.

::: sidenote You can only use the template images bundled with the editor. :::