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Middleman Template

The base Middleman application used at thoughtbot, ready to deploy to Netlify.

Prerequisites

Make sure you have Middleman installed:
```
gem install middleman
```
Then run:
```
middleman init PROJECT_NAME --template=thoughtbot/middleman-template
```
This will create a new Middleman app in a PROJECT_NAME directory.
Move into the project directory, then start the Middleman server:
```
bundle exec middleman server
```
You should now be able to view the app at http://localhost:4567.
At this point, you have a fresh Middleman app on your local machine with an empty Git repository initialized. Your next steps might be:
- Update README.md with your project specifics
- Create a GitHub repository and add it as a remote
- Create an initial Git commit and push it to GitHub
- Setup CircleCI
- Setup Hound
- Setup deployment with Netlify
Happy building!

This template comes with the following features and tools:

middleman-aria_current: An extension for indicating a current (active) link using aria-current.
middleman-autoprefixer: Automatically vendor-prefix stylesheets.
middleman-inline_svg: An extension for inlining SVGs in your views.
middleman-minify-html: Minifies whitespace around HTML when the site is built.
Sass: CSS pre-processor.
Bourbon: Sass tool set.
Bitters: Scaffold styles, variables and structure.
normalize.css: Modern CSS "reset"
Redcarpet: Markdown processing.
CircleCI: Continuous integration.
Hound: Comments on style violations in GitHub pull requests.
stylelint: CSS and Sass linter.
ESLint: JavaScript linter.

This project is maintained and funded by thoughtbot, inc. The names and logos for thoughtbot are trademarks of thoughtbot, inc.

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