Minimal Gulp Sass Pug Starter
Basic starter for Gulping Sass and Pug
Overview
The Minimal Gulp-Sass-Pug starter kit is an excellent solution for developers looking to dive into front-end development with a clean slate. Designed as a blank-sheet playground, this starter template provides essential tools such as Sass for styling and Pug for templating, all managed through Gulp. Although it’s not a full-fledged framework, it offers a simple yet effective way to build and experiment with CSS and HTML without the overhead of unnecessary features.
This starter kit is perfect for personal experimentation or small projects, giving users the freedom to manipulate the template according to their needs. With its straightforward setup process, you'll find that jumping into development is easy and efficient. Whether you're tweaking existing styles or crafting something new, this minimalist approach can help you focus on the core aspects of front-end development.
Features
- Gulp 4: Utilize the latest version of Gulp for task automation, ensuring a streamlined build process.
- Normalize: Automatically includes Normalize.css for consistent styling across different browsers, enhancing cross-browser compatibility.
- Bourbon: Access a library of lightweight Sass mixins that streamline styling tasks and promote best practices.
- PostCSS: Leverage PostCSS plugins for transforming CSS with JavaScript, enabling you to further refine your styles.
- Autoprefixer: Automatically adds vendor prefixes to your CSS rules, ensuring your styles look great in all browsers.
- cssnano: Optimize your CSS files by minimizing their size for improved load times and performance.
- Pug: Work with a clean and powerful templating engine that simplifies the creation of HTML structures.
- Browsersync: Enjoy synchronized browser testing across multiple devices, making it easy to see changes in real-time.
Feel free to grab this starter kit and customize it to suit your development needs!
- 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.
- 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.
- Pug
Pug is a high-performance template engine for Node.js and browsers that enables developers to write HTML templates using a concise and intuitive syntax. It supports a range of features, including template inheritance, conditionals, loops, mixins, and more, and can be easily integrated into a variety of web frameworks and build tools.