SchultzC
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21 hours ago Thank you for your questions.
The kit-app-template repository: This offers a streamlined integration with developer tooling and templates, helping developers manage and own the applications they build. It includes convenient tooling for creating new apps and extensions based on templates, simplified app launch, developer extensions (for troubleshooting and debugging), and more.
Building manually: This approach remains possible but requires a deeper knowledge of developing Kit applications since the convenience features of the tooling and templates are not present.
The direct download link: This provides a preconfigured version of the Kit Base Editor (also available as a template within this repository). While it can be used as a starting point for development, it comes with some of the same trade-offs as the manual build approach. It is recommended to leverage this as an initial preview of the types of things that can be built with the Kit SDK.
Recommendation: For app and extension development, it is generally recommended to use the kit-app-template repository as the starting point.
What is the difference with this template and manually building vs using the kit SDK that is now part of the omniverse download link?
They seem to be the exact same thing. When would one be used over the other?