I'm surprised there aren't more tools out there for starting a new project with some default config files.

There's `cargo new` but it's Rust specific and very minimal. create-react-app is React specific.

The only option I know of is cookiecutter. Surely it's a common problem?

@wilfredh This is sometimes called "scaffolding" and there's a bunch of tools that do this, especially in the web space. Yeoman is one example.

Nix flakes also have support for this.