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+short-description: Project templates
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+# Project templates (available since 0.45.0)
+
+To make it easier for new developers to start working, Meson ships a
+tool to generate the basic setup of different kinds of projects. This
+functionality can be accessed with the `meson init` command. A typical
+project setup would go like this:
+
+```console
+$ mkdir project_name
+$ cd project_name
+$ meson init --language=c --name=myproject --version=0.1
+```
+
+This would create the build definitions for a helloworld type
+project. The result can be compiled as usual. For example compiling it
+with Ninja could be done like this:
+
+```
+$ meson builddir
+$ ninja -C builddir
+```
+
+The generator has many different projects and settings. They can all
+be listed by invoking the command `meson test --help`.