Overview
The Static Starter 2021 is a build system for front-end development that combines various tools and technologies to provide a complete and scalable solution. It utilizes Gulp, Webpack, Handlebars, POST CSS, Babel, BrowserSync, and Netlify Deployment to streamline the development process and facilitate the creation of real-world front ends.
Features
- Faster development: The build system is designed to speed up the development process by automating common tasks and providing a scaffolding structure.
- Consumable mock API: The system includes a mock API that can be used to build front end interfaces before actual integration.
- NodeJS and npm: The build system requires NodeJS and npm to be installed as prerequisites for setting up and running the project.
- Development build: The system provides a development build task that compiles the code, starts the server, and watches for changes.
- Production build: There is also a production build task available for compiling the code for deployment.
Summary
- 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.
- Tailwind
Tailwind CSS is a utility-first CSS framework that provides pre-defined classes for building responsive and customizable user interfaces.
- 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.
- Netlify
Netlify is a cloud-based web development platform that provides a range of tools and services to help developers build, deploy, and manage modern web applications. It offers features such as continuous deployment, serverless functions, and CDN hosting, making it an ideal platform for building fast, scalable, and secure websites.
- 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.