Craft Startup Kit
A Craft CMS 3 + (Laravel Mix, TailwindCSS+purge, PostCss, AlpineJS, ESLint, AirBnb, Prettier) Boilerplate
Overview:
Craft CMS 3 is a lightly opinionated setup that is used internally for projects. It includes various features and plugins such as Laravel Mix, TailwindCSS, Purge, PostCss, AlpineJS, ESLint, AirBnb, and Prettier. This setup allows for easy installation and customization.
Features:
- Craft CMS 3.x
- Templates, Blocks, Components, and Pages (with dynamic page types)
- Email and Exception pages (404, 410, 503)
- Custom .env file and config/general.php
- Craft Project Configuration using config/project.yaml
- Craft Plugins: Essentials, Super Table, Redactor, Redactor Custom Styles, Olive Menus, Link Field, Images, Imager (forked version), Image Resizer, Minify, SEO, SEOTwig Utilities, Retcon 2
- Email and Forms: SendGrid, Wheel Form
- Customization: Control Panel Nav, Shell Scripts (scripts/*.sh), nystudio107/craft-scripts
- Tailwind Configuration: @tailwindcss/ui configuration, tailwindcss-aspect-ratio, benface/tailwindcss-typography, verlok/vanilla-lazyload
- CraftCMS Global Configuration: Head, Body & Footer Scripts, Favicons
- Site: Site Logo, Mobile URL Bar Colour, Cookie Consent
- Useful Resources: Color Shades Generator for TailwindCSS
Summary:
Craft CMS 3 is a feature-rich and customizable setup that includes various plugins and features for easy development. It offers an opinionated setup, making it easier to get started with Craft CMS projects. The installation process is straightforward, and the setup includes useful resources and configurations for efficient development.
- Tailwind
Tailwind CSS is a utility-first CSS framework that provides pre-defined classes for building responsive and customizable user interfaces.
- Alpine.js
Alpine.js is a lightweight JavaScript framework that simplifies the process of creating dynamic, reactive user interfaces on the web. It uses a declarative syntax that offers a higher level of abstraction compared to vanilla JavaScript, while being more performant and easier to use than jQuery.
- Eslint
ESLint is a linter for JavaScript that analyzes code to detect and report on potential problems and errors, as well as enforce consistent code style and best practices, helping developers to write cleaner, more maintainable code.
- Postcss
PostCSS is a popular open-source tool that enables web developers to transform CSS styles with JavaScript plugins. It allows for efficient processing of CSS styles, from applying vendor prefixes to improving browser compatibility, ultimately resulting in cleaner, faster, and more maintainable code.