boilerplate code

Boilerplate code is code that appears in many places with little or no variation, such as project setup, configuration files and repetitive declarations. Often shortened to boilerplate, it exists mainly to satisfy the structure a language or framework requires rather than to implement a program's core logic.

Developers reduce it with project templates, code generators and framework defaults, and they also hand the writing of such code to AI coding tools. Outside programming, boilerplate also refers to standard wording reused without change, such as stock clauses in contracts.

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