Starter Kit

A simple static site / PWA boilerplate using nunjunks for HTML templating, esbuild for JS transpilation and CSS variables.

Features

• Concatenate, minify, and lint TypeScript.
• Compile, minify, autoprefix, and lint CSS.
• Copy static files and folders into your public directory.
• Automatically add headers and project details to JS and CSS files.
• Create polyfilled and non-polyfilled versions of JS files.
• Watch for file changes, and automatically recompile build and reload webpages.

Gulp Boilerplate makes it easy to turn features on and off, so you can reuse it for all of your projects without having to delete or modify tasks.

Getting Started

Dependencies

Note: if you've previously installed Gulp globally, run npm rm --global gulp to remove it. Details here.

Make sure these are installed first.

• Node.js

Quick Start

1. In bash/terminal/command line, cd into your project directory.
2. Run yarn install to install required files and dependencies.
3. When it's done installing, run one of the task runners to get going:
   • yarn build manually compiles files.
   • yarn start automatically compiles files and applies changes using BrowserSync when you make changes to your source files.

Documentation

Add your source files to the appropriate src subdirectories. Gulp will process and and compile them into public.

• JavaScript files in the src/js directory will be compiled to public/bundle.min.js.
• Files in the src/css directory will be compiled to public/bundle.min.css.
• Files and folders placed in the src/assets directory will be copied as-is into the public directory.

package.json

The package.json file holds all of the details about your project.

Some information is automatically pulled in from it and added to a header that's injected into the top of your JavaScript and CSS files.

{
	"name": "project-name",
	"version": "0.0.1",
	"description": "A description for your project.",
    "main": "gulpfile.js",
	"author": {
		"name": "YOUR NAME",
		"url": "http://link-to-your-website.com"
	},
	"license": "MIT",
	"repository": {
		"type": "git",
		"url": "http://link-to-your-git-repo.com"
	},
	"devDependencies": {}
}

Note: devDependencies are the dependencies Gulp uses. Don't change these or you'll break things.

Copy Files

Files and folders placed in the src/assets directory will be copied as-is into public.

This is a great place to put images, and pre-compiled assets.

Options & Settings

Options and settings are located at the top of the gulpfile.js.

Settings

Set features under the settings variable to true to turn them on (default), and false to turn them off.

/**
     Settings
    Turn on/off build features
**/

const settings = {
    clean: true,
    html: true,
    javascript: true,
    stylesheets: true,
    assets: true,
    reload: true
};

Paths

Adjust the input and output paths for all of the Gulp tasks under the paths variable. Paths are relative to the root project folder.

/**
    Paths to project folders
**/

const paths = {
	input: "src/",
	output: "public/",
	html: {
		input: "src/views/pages/*.html",
    output: "public/",
    nunjunks: [ "src/views/templates/", "src/views/partials/" ],
    purge: "src/views/**/*.html"
	},
  javascript: {
		input: "src/js/index.js",
		output: "public/"
	},
	stylesheets: {
		input: "src/css/index.css",
		output: "public/"
	},
	assets: {
		input: "src/assets/**/*",
		output: "public/"
	},
	reload: "./public/"
};

License

The code is available under the MIT License.