Static Site Boilerplate
A better workflow for building modern static websites.
Overview
Static Site Boilerplate is a web development tool designed to provide a streamlined workflow for creating static websites. It offers a range of features including support for modern technologies, a built-in server for local development, performance tuning, image optimization, code linting, sitemap and robots.txt generation, setup wizard, browser and deployment support. The tool is free to use and available under the MIT license.
Features
- Modern Technologies: Full support for HTML5, JavaScript (Vanilla and ES6) and CSS (Sass and PostCSS)
- Built-in Server: Local development server with hot reloading
- Performance Tuning: CSS and JavaScript transpilation, bundling, autoprefixing, and minification
- Image Optimization: Optimizes images for loading speed
- Favicon Generation: Automatically generates all favicons for Web, Apple and Android devices from one image file
- Code Linting: Full support for JavaScript (ESLint) and CSS (StyleLint) linting
- Sitemap & Robots.txt Generation: Automatically generates a sitemap.xml and robots.txt files
- Setup Wizard: Optionally install helpful libraries and snippets including CSS Resets (normalize.css, reset.css or sanitize.css), jQuery, and Google Analytics
- HTML
HTML templates are pre-designed and pre-built web pages that can be customized and used as a basis for building websites. They often include common elements such as headers, footers, menus, and content sections, and can be easily edited using HTML and CSS to fit specific branding and content needs.
- LESS
Less CSS is a dynamic stylesheet language that extends the capabilities of CSS, allowing developers to write cleaner, more modular, and reusable stylesheets with features like variables, mixins, and nested rules.
- SCSS
SCSS is a preprocessor scripting language that extends the capabilities of CSS by adding features such as variables, nesting, and mixins. It allows developers to write more efficient and maintainable CSS code, and helps to streamline the development process by reducing repetition and increasing reusability.
- 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.
- Netlify
Netlify is a cloud-based web development platform that provides a range of tools and services to help developers build, deploy, and manage modern web applications. It offers features such as continuous deployment, serverless functions, and CDN hosting, making it an ideal platform for building fast, scalable, and secure websites.
- 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.
- Stylelint
Stylelint is a modern linter for CSS that helps you avoid errors and enforce consistent styling conventions. It provides rules for detecting errors and warnings, and can be configured to match your specific project's requirements.
- Webpack
Webpack is a popular open-source module bundler for JavaScript applications that bundles and optimizes the code and its dependencies for production-ready deployment. It can also be used to transform other types of assets such as CSS, images, and fonts.
