Gulp Webpack Handlebars
Gulp frontend builder with Webpack and Handlebars
Overview
Front-end Boilerplate is a flexible template for web development. It includes many tools for creating responsive, high-performance, and lightweight pages. It uses Gulp 4, Webpack 5, Handlebars, Babel, and BrowserSync, among others. The template provides features like file structure management, SVG sprites, live reload, and debugging. It also includes Jquery, Bootstrap 4, and CurrentDevice.
Features
- Task Runner: Gulp
- CSS: SASS/SCSS, CleanCSS, Autoprefixer
- JS: Webpack, Babel
- JS Examples: FileInclude, Uglify
- HTML Templates: Handlebars.js, handlebars-layouts
- Images: ImageMin
- Live Reload: BrowserSync
- Debug: Sourcemaps, Plumber
- More: Favicons, SVG Sprites, Notifier, Changed
- Included JS: Jquery, Bootstrap 4, CurrentDevice
Summary
Front-end Boilerplate is a flexible web development template that provides a range of features like task management, CSS preprocessing, JavaScript bundling, HTML templateing, image optimization, live reload, and debugging. It includes popular libraries like Jquery and Bootstrap 4 to enhance development capabilities. The installation process is straightforward, requiring NodeJS and npm to be installed, followed by cloning the repository and running the necessary commands. This template can be a useful starting point for developers looking to build responsive and high-performing web pages.
- Bootstrap
Bootstrap is the most popular CSS Framework for developing responsive and mobile-first websites.
- 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.
- 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.