nu-webapp

This is a starting point for a new webapp, inspired by generator-webapp. Replace this file with your own README afterwards.

Differences between generator-webapp and nu-webapp

The first difference is that generator-webapp is a Yeoman generator, while nu-webapp is a repository you clone, like web-starter-kit. generator-webapp will give you options to install jQuery, Modernizer, etc; while nu-webapp gives you no such options (this doesn't mean you can't install them yourself, just that there is not an initialization wizard).

	nu-webapp	generator-webapp
Gulp	✓	✓
ES6 with Babel(ify)	✓	✓
CSS Autoprefixing	✓	✓
BrowserSync	✓	✓
SASS	✓	✓
Automagically lint		✓
Source maps	✓	✓
Image optimization	✓	✓
Bower		✓
Browserify	✓
Airbnb eslint config	✓
SASS linting	✓
HTML linting	✓

There are more features you can find by looking into the package.json and gulpfile.js.

tl;dr: Bower-- Browserify++ lint_all_the_things++

Requirements

Node v6.9.1

I recommend using NVM for installing and changing to different Node versions.

If you have NVM installed, upon switching to this project folder you can type nvm use to switch node to the 6.9.1 version.

Installing

Put popcorn in microwave.

Change name-of-your-app to the name of your app or module in these commands:

git clone git@github.com:DrummerHead/nu-webapp.git name-of-your-app
cd name-of-your-app/
rm -rf .git && git init
git add . && git commit -m "Fresh nu-webapp"
npm install --global gulp-cli
npm install

Go eat popcorn while NPM installs packages.

Using Yarn instead of NPM

If you're popcorn-intolerant, you can use Yarn instead of NPM:

git clone git@github.com:DrummerHead/nu-webapp.git name-of-your-app
cd name-of-your-app/
rm -rf .git && git init
git add . && git commit -m "Fresh nu-webapp"
yarn global add gulp-cli
yarn

Workflows

Develop

Start local server with:

gulp serve

Make changes to your HTML, SCSS and/or JS; add NPM Modules if you want. Go wild.

After you think the changes have achieved a specific goal (ready for commit), lint your HTML, CSS and/or JS with any of:

gulp scripts-lint

gulp sass-lint

gulp html-lint
gulp html-lint-2

Useful links for understanding more about lint errors:

After making any corrections, add & commit your changes.

The second html linter is the official w3c one. Keeping both for now, will change in the future after I find a solution to its pretty bad console output.

Build

When you're ready to make a transpiled, concatenated and minified version of your app ready for online consumption, run:

gulp build

And copy the contents of dist to your server.