Yet another boilerplate project for front end applications. Forked from bootstrap-4-boilerplate.
This boilerplate project intends for tiny static sites with few pages. If you want to build a content website, see Lightweight CMS instead.
Main tools used during development:
Libraries used in the output:
Clone this repo and install all tools:
$ git clone https://github.com/cwchentw/bootstrap-3-boilerplate.git
$ mv html-frontend-boilerplate myapp
$ cd myapp
$ npm install
After editing myapp, update the remote URL to save it to a new remote repo:
$ git remote set-url origin path/to/remote/repo
Invoke this command to build a project:
$ npm run dev
The output will be in public directory. During development phase, all assets will keep pretty format.
Invoke this command:
$ npm run watch
Visit the output at http://localhost:3000/ . While ediing the project. the output will be updated automatically.
Invoke this command to build a project for production environment:
$ npm run prod
The output will be in public directory. During production phase, all assets will be minified to save bandwidth.
Upload the content in public directory to a remote web server to publish this project.
You should NOT use the builtin error pages provided by your web server. Such pages usually reveal too many technical details. Instead, you should set redirecting rules and custom error pages for erroreous HTTP status codes.
In this boilerplate project, we provide a custom HTTP 404 error page. Nevertheless, the page works only on our development environment. You still need to set your own redirecting rules and custom error pages on your production environment.
The version 2.0.27 is the last version of Bootstrap.Native that supports Bootstrap 3. The project only supports Bootstrap 4 since the version 3.x.
This boilerplate project is largely inspired by tonik/html-frontend-boilerplate.
Why re-inventing the wheel? That project didn't migrate to Gulp 4 yet as this repo was built. In addition, the project used Rollup as its bundler, which doesn't support multiple JavaScript files when combined with Gulp. Hence, I updated to Gulp 4, dropping Rollup to support multiple scripts in this repo.
Copyright 2020-2021, Michelle Chen. This repo itself is under MIT license. Nevertheless, you may adopt it in your own project with any license you prefer.