Spike Core

An opinionated static build tool, powered by webpack

Note: This project is currently unmaintained. If you are interested in taking over maintenance, please reach out!

Why should you care?

If you're building a website or client-side app – then 🌵 spike is probably for you. Spike aims to be simple, efficient, and a pleasure to use.

Spike certainly is not the only static site generator out there, but in our opinion, it's the most powerful and easiest to use.

Spike is from the same team that brought you Roots. The thinking behind moving past Roots is explained in this article. Please feel free to comment and contribute.

The Stack

Spike is fairly strict in enforcing a default stack. However, the stack allows for quite a large amount of flexibility as all of the parsers are simply foundations that do nothing by default and accept plugins to transform code. Also spike's core compiler is Webpack, so you can customize your project with loaders and plugins. The inflexibility of the stack means faster compiles and better stability. We use...

reshape for markup
babel for JS and JS transforms
postcss for CSS transforms
webpack as the core compiler

Features

Easy configuration via the app.js file
Integration with Webpack's massive plugin/loader ecosystem
Support for ES6 in your client-side JS via Babel
PostCSS default means extensive flexibility in CSS syntax and tools
Reshape default means the same for your HTML
Breezy local development powered by Browsersync
Selective compile in watch mode ⚡
Support for multiple environments
Interactive Project Starters via sprout
Spike Plugins for common integrations

Installation

npm install spike-core -S

Usage

Spike operates through a carefully crafted javascript interface. If you are looking to use spike through its command line interface, check out spike. This project is just the core javascript API.