AlloyUI

AlloyUI is a framework built on top of YUI3 (JavaScript) that uses Bootstrap 3 (HTML/CSS) to provide a simple API for building high scalable applications.

Browser Support

As an user interface framework we do care about browser support. Most of our modules use all the power of HTML5, so for old browsers we provide fallbacks in Flash.


IE 8+ ✔	Latest ✔	Latest ✔	Latest ✔	Latest ✔

Automated tasks

We use Gulp, a task-runner in Node, to automate things.

gulp <command>

To discover the most commonly used tasks, run:

gulp help

Setup

Install NodeJS <= v0.12.0, if you don't have it yet.
Install global dependencies:

[sudo] npm install -g gulp

Install local dependencies:

npm install

Build AlloyUI & YUI3 using Shifter:

gulp build

Discussion

Structure

The basic structure of the project is given in the following way:

bower_components/ Contains all dependencies fetched via Bower. However, this directory is unnecessary for versioning, so it is ignored (.gitignore).
build/ Contains AlloyUI and YUI generated files, once build task has been run. However, this directory is unnecessary for versioning, so it is ignored (.gitignore).
demos/ Contains basic examples of the AlloyUI modules.
src/ Contains the source code of the AlloyUI modules.
tasks/ Contains the source code of the Gulp tasks.
.alloy.json Specifies all dependencies and some configurations.
.editorconfig Specifies the coding style for different editors/IDEs.
.jsbeautifyrc Specifies the coding format rules for JSBeautify.
.jshintrc Specifies the linting configurations for JSHint.
.yeti.json Specifies the testing configurations for Yeti.
LICENSE.md Defines the license agreement for AlloyUI.
README.md Explains the AlloyUI project.
package.json Lists all NodeJS dependencies.