Middleman-neato

A nice project template for Middleman, the fantastic static site building tool.

Features

Neato sets you up with the following, straight out of the box:

Slim templating
Sass support with Bourbon & Neat
A basic page layout & 404 page based on HTML5 Boilerplate (in Slim)
Blogging support with feeds (easily disabled where not required)
Syntax highlighting via middleman-syntax, with an easy theme toggle
Simple Google Analytics support
Livereload
CSS & Javascript minification, image optimisation and gzipping on build
Optional IE8 support setting which loads appropriate normalize.css & jQuery versions
…and probably some other stuff.

Thanks to the brilliance of Middleman, this should get you up and running on new projects pretty darn fast.

gem install middleman

Clone Neato:

git clone git@github.com:shkm/middleman-neato.git my-project

Install gems and get to work!

cd my-project
bundle install
middleman

If you find yourself using Neato often, you can install it as a middleman template:

git clone git@github.com:shkm/middleman-neato.git ~/.middleman/neato

Now you can simply init new projects with the Neato template:

middleman init -T=neato my-project

Just don't forget to update ~/.middleman/neato every now and then.