Use https://github.com/audreyr/cookiecutter-pypackage

signac-driven-fbpic is too specific.

possible alternatives:

• pic_data_management
• picflow
• pic_workflow

• check if any of the remaining modules under postproc can be useful
• if so, package them separately
• remove calder/ and cetal/ dirs, as well as signac/aggregation/src/analysis.py
• refactor code depending on lwfa.py and plotz.py to use prepic and sliceplots
• update install instructions

There are several ways one can do this:

• Use project = signac.get_project('/path/to/external/project')
• Alter the Project Configuration signac.rc file to point to an external workspace: https://docs.signac.io/en/latest/configuration.html#project-configuration

In order to check the sim input, it would be nice to look at the laser only (ie run a fast sim with no particles) and at the plasma density only (ie run a fast sim with no laser and plot the plasma density along the whole sim domain).

The easiest way to do this is to delete the particles that are created by the simulation object by calling sim.ptcl=[] after the simulation object is generated. Be aware that the laser might diffract faster when there is no plasma present and one might get reflections on the boundary of the simulation window.

To check the density function one can evaluate the dens_func at the sim positions. For example to plot the longitudinal density profile:

z = np.linspace(0, 10e-3, 1000) 
dens = dens_func(z, 0)
plt.plot(z, dens)

glotzerlab/signac-flow#114

Use the dev branch of fbpic, which includes this PR.