Includes:
- Bootstrap 4: build responsive, mobile-first projects on the web with the world's most popular front-end component library
- Gulp 4: task runner for running all of the following
- Sass compilation: leverage the power of the most popular CSS extension language
- Sourcemaps generation for easier Sass debugging
- Browsersync: automatically reloads (or injects in case of CSS), browsers' when you change files
- Autoprefixer: parses CSS and adds vendor prefixes according to caniuse.com
- UnCSS: removes unused styles from CSS
- Flexbugs fixes: automatically fixes some of the flexbugs
- CSSO: CSS minifier with structural optimizations
- Nunjucks: templating language by Mozilla
- Surge.sh: deploy static websites easily and for free
Install latest node.js
npm install
If you’re having errors with node-gyp
, try installing it globally.
To develop with automatic compilation and browser refreshing run
npm start
And see the result on http://localhost:3000/
To build everything once for production deploy (in /dist/
folder)
This build uses all generated HTML files for UnCSS. If it removes something you need to keep, add and array to ignore
option in gulpfile.esm.js
.
npm run build
index.css
is compiled from src/scss/index.scss
by Sass.
You don't know Scss syntax or don't want to use it? Just use plain CSS in src/scss/_base.scss
.
HTML is generated from Nunjucks templates in src/templates
.
You don't need to leverage the power of templates. You can just create plain HTML files with *.njk
extension.
If you don't want a template to be turned into HTML file start it with _
. Typically these are templates used for include or extend.
If you need some data to be available in all templates, use templates/data.json
for that.
Folders and files from /src/static/
are simply copied directly to /dist/
folder.
You can comment out Bootstrap components you don't need in /src/index.scss
.
/src/_custom-bootstrap-variables.scss
contains only customized Bootstrap variables.
See browserslist
in package.json
for supported browsers.
Upload everything in /dist/
folder to the server.
You can use surge.sh free service for that.
- If you don’t have a surge account: run surge client with
npx surge
in/dist
folder to create it. - Set your own domain in
package.json
(just replacehttps://my-first-website.surge.sh
with yours). - From now on run
npm run deploy
whenever you want to publish a new version.
If you want multiple people to be able to deploy to the same domain, run surge --add [email protected]
for each.