Kickstarter CLI for your static-websites with best practices. Easily extendible!

What is goalup-kickstart?

A CLI tool to generate Simple and Lightweight boilerplate with standard web practices, with gulp blended underneath.

Serve your web pages in Vintage style, and with Full-control on What and How your CSS and JS bundles with each route in a structured way. And Production-run simply bakes your static website ready to be served.

(WIP: Work recently started. Watch out the space.)

Installation:

npm install -g goalup-kickstart

Getting Started:

goalup-kickart new project_name
cd project_name

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Features Supported

• es6+ JS
• CSS preprocessor (stylus) and auto-prefixers
• Template engine and partials (.pug)
• Data reading (.yml)
• Production-ready build (Minification + File hashing)
• Lazy load images (+ Option to provide placeholder low quality image)
• static file serving (Copied directly to build folder. Use goalup-minify in case you need to minify assets inside)
• sitemap and robot.txt
• FE auto-redirect script
• Pretty Urls (Directory Indexes)
• Get gzipped versions of assets HTML, CSS, Javascript and other files.

Full control on how files are bundled.

• (Internal + External CSS + External source CSS) + Helper CSS files
• (JS in html + External JS + External source JS) + Reusable JS helpers
• Common banner and footer across pages + Escape it on some pages
• Boilerplate generated is fully extendible/modifiable

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Scope for this boilerplate:

• Production-ready build - Add support for Environment variables
• Add support markdown
• Live-reloading
• Unit testing (chai + mocha)
• Puppeteer test to check all routes are loaded fine without JS/CSS errors.
• ESLint
• CSSLint

Next Steps for You!

• Animation Optimizations / Sequencing
• Lighthouse for page loading speeds
• PWA
• Workbox
• GA events
• Polyfills
• Cross browser Testing! Browserstack
• For IE 8 support, use es5-shims

Kudos!

Kudos is an amazing way to exchange appreciation for the project and inspire others.
Using goalup-kickstarter in public projects? Add url below!

Further Goals with goalups:

• goalup-tour
• goalup-snackbar

https://middlemanapp.com/basics/frontmatter/ https://github.com/middleman/middleman https://github.com/cveneziani/middleman-boilerplate https://github.com/vigetlabs/blendid https://github.com/jbrodriguez/hugulp