punch

Punch

A Fun and easy way to build modern websites

Punch is a framework designed to cater the modern web development needs. No matter whether you are a beginner or an expert, a designer or a developer, prototyping a simple idea or buidling a complex web application, Punch can make your workflow productive and joyful.

With Punch you can...

• Write minimal templates using Mustache.
• Use inheritable layouts and partials to create any site structure.
• Structure page contents in JSON.
• Create formatted content using Markdown.
• Use CoffeeScript and LESS instead of JavaScript and CSS.
• Minify and bundle assets before serving.
• Preview changes on the fly, while you develop.
• Set cache headers and compress responses. (play nice with CDNs)
• Easily publish to Amazon S3 or to a custom server with SFTP.

Don't stop there, go beyond the defaults...

• Fetch content from any source (eg. SQL databases, key-value stores or REST APIs).
• Use a template engine of your choice.
• Write helpers to spice up the templates.
• Add custom content parsers, pre-compilers, minifiers and publishers.
• Add hooks to run after generating a page or site.
• Define your own caching strategy.

Installation

• You will need to download and install Node.js. http://nodejs.org/#download

• Then, run npm install -g punch

Note: If you experience any issues in installing Punch on Windows, please read this guide.

Quick Tutorial

Here's a quick tutorial to get started:

https://github.com/laktek/punch/wiki/Quick-tutorial

Documentation

For complete documentation on usage, please check Punch's Wiki

Licence

MIT LICENSE