Ps Plugin Boilerplate
PowerSchool Plugin Development Boilerplate
Overview
The PowerSchool Plugin Boilerplate is a robust solution tailored for developers looking to create PowerSchool plugins with the latest JavaScript standards. Utilizing modern tools like Babel, Webpack, and Gulp, this boilerplate streamlines the development process, ensuring that the final product is packaged efficiently as a distribution ZIP file. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced developer in the PowerSchool ecosystem, this boilerplate provides an excellent foundation to jump-start your project.
Setting up the boilerplate is intuitive; simply clone the repository, configure your project, and you're ready to go. With features designed to optimize both development and deployment, including support for SCSS and image server integration, the PowerSchool Plugin Boilerplate stands out as a flexible and powerful tool for building custom plugins.
Features
- Modern JavaScript Standards: Implements Babel transformation to utilize the latest JavaScript features, promoting cleaner and more efficient code.
- Webpack Integration: Streamlines asset management and bundling, allowing developers to effortlessly compile JavaScript and SCSS files.
- Gulp Automation: Offers various Gulp tasks to automate the build process, including zip packaging, making it easier to deploy your plugins.
- Easily Configurable: Simple setup process with customizable fields in the
package.json, enabling tailored project configurations. - Image Server Deployment: Facilitates deploying plugins with specific web root hooks and images, enhancing the plugin's functionality and visual appeal.
- Development Server Support: Quickly test changes in real-time with the webpack-serve command, allowing for efficient development cycles.
- Comprehensive Documentation: Clear guidelines throughout the boilerplate help both new and seasoned developers navigate the setup and deployment processes easily.
- 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.
- Gulp
Gulp.js is an old but popular site building tool that automates various repetitive development tasks in web development, such as compiling Sass, minifying JavaScript, and optimizing images.
- 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.
- 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.