generator-snow

generator-snow

Features:

• Jade/Stylus/CoffeeScript stack
• Localisation based on content from a single config file
• Minimal CSS boilerplate framework
• CoffeeScript with browserify (require "dependency")
• Remove unused CSS
• Unit tests with Jasmine/Karma/PhantomJS
• Automatically includes jQuery (latest, or otherwise 1.10.* if IE8 support is * required) and HTML5 shim if required
• Component integration
• Other front-end dependencies managed with Bower
• All the config files you need
• Support for icon fonts and SVG icon sprites
• Responsive images using picturefill
• Image optimisation
• Full set of fav/app/touch icons
• Automating cache-busting for CSS and JS
• Fully automated watch & build system using GulpJS
• A handsome logo

Getting Started

Yeoman is a scaffolding application that helps you set up projects so you can get straight into the coding. Snow is a generator that scaffolds out a starter template with:

• Jade, Stylus, and CoffeeScript front-end stack
• Gulp configuration to compile and optimise templates, styles, scripts, and images, as well as run a development server with livereload (won't work with a VPN on)
• Localised content generated from a single JSON file

Prerequisites

• NodeJS
• NPM
• GulpJS
• Yeoman:

$ sudo npm install -g yo

Get Started

To install generator-snow from npm, run:

$ sudo npm install -g generator-snow

Then create a new project directory and then initiate the generator:

$ mkdir <project> && cd $_
$ yo snow <project>

Sub-generators

To create a new page:

yo snow:page [pagename]

Using the generated project

To install Bower and Component dependencies:

gulp install

During development (compile, watch for changes, run a server):

gulp

For deployment (will package and optimise everything):

gulp deploy

License

MIT