# App Engine Boilerplate

DevFeed: [App Engine Boilerplate](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/app-engine-boilerplate-31821.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.metachris.dev/2011/04/app-engine-boilerplate/>)

Author: Chris Hager

Published: 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Chris Hager](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/chris-hager.md>)

Topics: [Boilerplate](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/boilerplate.md>), [Code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/code.md>), [Google](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/google.md>), [HTML5](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/html5.md>), [jQuery](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/jquery.md>), [openid](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/openid.md>), [Authentication](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/authentication.md>), [Caching](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/caching.md>), [datasets](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/datasets.md>)

Tags: [authentication](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/authentication.md>), [boilerplate](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/boilerplate.md>), [cache](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cache.md>), [code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/code.md>), [google](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/google.md>), [html5](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/html5.md>), [openid](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/openid.md>), [template](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/template.md>)

## AI overview

The article introduces appengine-boilerplate, a BSD-licensed repository of reusable boilerplate code for Google's App Engine. It describes included HTML5 and jQuery resources, OpenID authentication, user preference data, memcached datastore objects, request handlers, template tags, development tools, and configuration for different access levels.

## Source excerpt

I recently started appengine-boilerplate, a repository of often used boilerplate code for Google's App Engine, which allows to quickly setup new projects without having to re-invent the most common wheels. All code is released under the BSD license, and It comes with the following goodies: html5-boilerplate (incl. jQuery) OpenID authentication User preferences data model (with gravatar image link) Memcache for datastore objects Handlers for /, /profile, /login and /logout Custom template tags Various tools such as is_testenv(), decode(input) and slugify(title) app.