Ghost Template development environment

Requirements
Installation of dependencies
Building
Serving the files with a local webserver
Sublime Text

Requirements

nodejs, On a mac fetch it with homebrew: brew install node
gulp, Install via npm if you don't have it: npm install -g gulp
bower, Install via npm if you don't have it: npm install -g bower

Installation of dependencies

Execute the following commands while in the package dir (package.json lies there):

npm install
bower install

It will fetch a lot of gulp plugins, a ghost package and the inuitcss framework.

Building

There are three main targets for building:

default (just run gulp without arguments), builds the complete theme and dumps to content/themes/dev/
livereload (run gulp livereload) starts a file watcher and a livereload server, and a ghost demo instance. connect your browser to that server (or just depend on the inserted javascript shim) to get a live preview while editing templates or css
dist (run gulp dist) packs up the template in dev-theme.zip and removes livereload and .map files.

Serving the files with a local webserver

Just use the gulp task livereload:

gulp livereload

This will run a demo ghost instance on http://localhost:2368 (user template, email: example@example.com, password: template) with the dev-theme preselected.

Sublime Text

If you're using Sublime Text, please open the template-dev project, it hides all things that are not neccessary for developing a template.

Furthermore it defines 2 build targets: