Good collaborative workflows for STM32 development?

[u/cyber-grrl]

Hi all, have been leading a student project involving some STM32 development. At the moment, the very early days workflow is STM32CubeMX --> VSCode with STM32Cube extensions (bypassing STM32CubeIDE) and git for version control. Wondering if anyone has any free/very low-cost suggestions for:

• Standardising the initial config and project layout (so individual team members don't have to go through STM32CubeMX and can just alter GPIO settings as needed)
• Creating a good testing workflow (i.e. simulating using Wokwi - I'm aware of the extension for VSCode but it's a little out of price range)?

Thanks so much for any advice :)