Web Starter Kit

Overview:

Web Starter Kit is an opinionated boilerplate for web development. It is designed to help developers build a great experience across multiple devices and optimize performance. It follows the best practices outlined in Google's Web Fundamentals and serves as a solid starting point for both professionals and newcomers to the industry.

Features:

• Responsive boilerplate: A responsive boilerplate optimized for the multi-screen web. Powered by Material Design Lite. You can choose to use either the responsive boilerplate or start from a clean slate via basic.html.
• Sass support: Easily compile Sass into CSS, including support for variables, mixins, and more. Use gulp serve or gulp for production.
• Performance optimization: Minify and concatenate JavaScript, CSS, HTML, and images to optimize page load speed. Use gulp to create an optimized version of your project in the /dist directory.
• Code Linting: JavaScript code linting is done using ESLint, a pluggable linter tool for identifying patterns in JavaScript. Web Starter Kit uses ESLint with eslint-config-google, which follows the Google JavaScript style guide.
• ES2015 via Babel 6.0: Optional support for ES2015 (ECMAScript 2015) using Babel. ES2015 source code will be automatically transpiled to ES5 for wide browser support. To enable ES2015 support, remove the line "only": "gulpfile.babel.js" in the .babelrc file.
• Built-in HTTP Server: Includes a built-in server for previewing your site locally while you develop and iterate.
• Live Browser Reloading: Real-time browser reloading every time an edit is made, eliminating the need for a browser extension. Use gulp serve and edit your files.
• Cross-device Synchronization: Synchronize changes across multiple devices in real-time.

Summary:

Web Starter Kit is a powerful boilerplate for web development that provides a solid foundation for building responsive and performant websites. With features like Sass support, code linting, ES2015 support, and built-in server and browser reloading, developers can stay productive and follow best practices. It is a valuable resource for both experienced professionals and newcomers to the industry.