BalmJS

A flexible Front-End workflow for webapps

Introduction

BalmJS prescribes best practices and tools to help you stay productive.

Naturally: Make web development simple, natural and pleasant.
Structure-Based: One configuration file can manage webapp projects with at least 90% use cases.
Learn Once, Run Any Webapps: Any front-end technology stack will be developed and built in the same way.

Features

Based on gulp + webpack for webapp projects
Automagically compile PostCSS/Sass/Less
CSS Autoprefixing
Automagically generate CSS Image Sprites
enable ES2015+ features using Babel
Awesome images optimization
Built-in preview server with BrowserSync
Custom publish assets to remote (Front-end to Back-end) project
ZIP/FTP/PWA supported
Easily define and extend your own tasks

Structure

🚀 We recommend using Balm CLI to scaffold out a front-end web app.

project
├── .tmp         // Scaffolds out a temporary directory for development
├── dist         // Scaffolds out the production build
├─┬ src          // Source code in here (Create a directory in project)
│ ├── fonts
│ ├── images
│ ├── media
│ ├─┬ scripts
│ │ └── index.js // Required. A entry file for JS.
│ ├─┬ styles
│ │ └── main.css // Required. A entry file for CSS.
│ └── index.html // Required. A entry file for HTML.
├── .dotfile     // (e.g. .gitignore, .browserslistrc, etc...)
├── babel.config.js
├── balm.config.js // Required. A configuration file for Balm.
├── package.json   // Required.
└── ...

Installation

0. Requirements

You need to set up your development environment before you can do anything.

Install Node.js® and npm if they are not already on your machine.

Verify that you are running at least node 10.13.0 and npm 5.2.0 by running node -v and npm -v in a terminal/console window. Older versions maybe produce errors, but newer versions are fine.

You develop apps in the context of an Balm workspace.

To create a new workspace and initial starter app:

# /path/to/YOUR_WORKSPACE
mkdir -p my-project/src/{styles,scripts}
echo "Hello World" > my-project/src/index.html

cd my-project
npm init -y

1. Installing `balm`

yarn global add balm-core
yarn add -D balm

npm install -g balm-core
npm install -D balm

We currently recommend using Yarn instead of npm.

2. Configuration

In your project directory, create a file named balm.config.js in your project root with these contents:

module.exports = {
  // Your project config
};

📃 Refer to configuration docs to learn more about config balm.

3. Usage

Edit package.json in your project directory:

{
  "scripts": {
    "dev": "balm",
    "prod": "balm -p"
  }
}

Run the command in your project directory:

# For development
npm run dev

# For production
npm run prod

Demo

HTML boilerplate
Laravel
TypeScript
Yours awesome projects...

Documentation

To download example and try it, visit balm.js.org.

Ecosystem

Project	Status	Description
balm-core		🃏 BalmJS compiler core (required for `balm 3.0`)
balm		🃏 BalmJS runtime core
balm-cli		♠️ BalmJS scaffolding tool
balm-gui	N/A	♣️ GUI for BalmJS
balm-ui-lite		♥️ Material Design Lite + Vue
balm-ui		♦️ Next Generation Material UI for Vue.js
balm-scroll		📜 Smooth scrolling for Vue.js