The BEST Project Structure for C/C++/MCU | Embedded System Project Series #7

In this video, I talk about how I'm going to organize the files of the project and I present the following structure:

build/
docs/
src/
app/
common/
drivers/
test/
main.c
tools/
.clang-format
.gitignore
LICENSE
Makefile
README.md

Is this the best project structure? Well, take a look at the video for my opinion :)

0:00 What's the best structure?
1:33 Ex 1: The Pitchfork Layout
2:13 Ex 2: Canonical Project Structure
2:45 My project structure
7:35 Naming conventions
7:57 Last words

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👨‍💻 About me
Hi and welcome. I'm Niklas, an embedded systems engineer from Sweden. On this channel, I make practical videos about embedded systems or, in general terms, about building and programming hardware.

[artfulbytes]

Noticed I Introduced some audio clipping after moving my microphone closer 🤦‍♂ I will get that sorted next video!

[vitto_pincharrata]

I like so much how you documented your proyect, and the details in the video production are 10/10. I am having my own embedded adventure and this serie is a huge partner.
Btw, what's the font you are using on the terminal?

[EEEEMMMMKKKK]

Great work. You explained the things very well. This is a very good foundation for not only embedded projects.

[PulpFreePress]

Ohhh, I think the dog vs. cat person thing does have an impact of how a person organizes their project structure! Great video!

[gabriel_gelli]

Great video!!
I searched a lot for standard project structures for C++ for embedded systems...
I could not find any general explanation like yours, explaining the possibilities, reasoning behind them, motivations for organizing...
Thanks for this great material and awesome video series!

[rdsaw]

Thanks a lot for the video, especially for the provided resources❤

[QWin-iryq]

Awesome videos. Just curious as to why the msp430 for your robot project?

[ericksagaguara]

Thank you for this video series, its very interesting to see what others are doing.

What template or rules do you follow for naming folder and files? Is there a document for it?

[adrishkumar]

Great video. Very interesting and something I was searching for badly. I have one suggestion though. If you could please lower the pace of your speaking, then it would help us follow through. Keep up the good work.