punch

Punch

A Fun and Easy Way to Build Modern Websites

Punch is a framework designed to cater the modern web development needs. It doesn't matter whether you are a novice developer prototyping a hobby project or an seasoned designer creating a complex web architecture, Punch can make your workflow more productive and joyful.

With Punch you can...

• Write minimal templates with Mustache.
• Create flexible site structures with inheritable layouts and partials.
• Define page contents in JSON.
• Use Markdown to write formatted content.
• Use CoffeeScript and LESS if those are your taste.
• 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.

Wait, There's more...

• Content can be fetched from any data source (eg. SQL databases, key-value stores or REST APIs).
• Don't like Mustache? Switch to 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