Specimen Skeleton
An Eleventy-based specimen boilerplate
Overview
Specimen Skeleton is a streamlined boilerplate designed for quickly setting up a specimen site using Eleventy. Ideal for developers looking to showcase variable fonts, it offers a straightforward workflow, from initial setup to live demo capabilities. By utilizing tools like Yarn and FontFaceObserver, users can easily analyze and present their fonts with customized CSS, enhancing their interactive demos without the complexity of full specimen generators.
Getting started with Specimen Skeleton is remarkably easy. With Node.js and Yarn prerequisites, a few simple commands prepare your environment, kicking off a local development server ready for immediate use. The automatic rebuild and deployment system to GitHub Pages further simplifies the process, ensuring that the latest updates are seamlessly reflected online.
Features
- Quick Setup: Installation is as simple as running a few Yarn commands to get your site up and running in no time.
- Automatic Deployment: Every change made in the master branch is automatically rebuilt and deployed to GitHub Pages.
- Interactive Elements: Built-in interactive features allow for engaging demonstrations of variable fonts.
- Font Analysis: Automatically analyzes variable fonts and generates necessary CSS and sliders for immediate use.
- Flexible Font Management: Customize your font data easily through a structured JSON format, allowing for reordering and renaming without hassle.
- Viewport Awareness: Use specific classes to control animations based on the user's viewport, enhancing user experience.
- Image Handling: Simplified image embedding with relative paths makes asset management straightforward.
- Customization Options: Modify your site's configuration easily through a dedicated JavaScript file, providing flexibility to tailor the site as needed.
- 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.
- 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.