2.3. Poetry Template

The Poetry Template manages your project’s dependencies with Poetry. It’s the default — every project starts on it automatically, whether or not you name it explicitly.

It’s an exclusive template: it can’t be installed alongside Pipenv or uv, only instead of one of them.

2.3.1. Switching to Poetry

If a project is currently on Pipenv or uv, switching back to Poetry converts its existing dependencies for you — nothing is lost, and nothing needs to be reinstalled by hand:

appcraft add_template poetry

This reads whatever dependencies the project currently has and rewrites them as Poetry’s [tool.poetry.*] tables in pyproject.toml, removing the previous manager’s files (a Pipfile, for instance) in the process.