Web app generator

Yeoman generator that scaffolds out a front-end web app using gulp for the build process

🚧 There is a pre-release version of this generator, you can install it by running

npm install --global [email protected]

Features

Please see our gulpfile for up to date information on what we support.

• enable ES2015 features using Babel
• CSS Autoprefixing
• Built-in preview server with BrowserSync
• Automagically compile Sass with libsass
• Automagically lint your scripts
• Map compiled CSS to source stylesheets with source maps
• Awesome image optimization

For more information on what this generator can do for you, take a look at the gulp plugins used in our

package.json

libsass

Keep in mind that libsass is feature-wise not fully compatible with Ruby Sass. Check out this curated list of incompatibilities to find out which features are missing.

If your favorite feature is missing and you really need Ruby Sass, you can always switch to gulp-ruby-sass and update the

styles

Getting Started

• Install:

  npm install --global yo gulp-cli generator-webapp

• Run

  yo webapp

  to scaffold your webapp
• Run

  npm start

  to preview and watch for changes
• Run

  npm start -- --port=8080

  to preview and watch for changes in port

  8080

• Run

  npm install --save 

  to install dependencies, frontend included
• Run

  npm run  serve:test

  to run the tests in the browser
• Run

  npm run  serve:test -- --port=8085

  to run the tests in the browser in port

  8085

• Run

  npm run build

  to build your webapp for production
• Run

  npm run serve:dist

  to preview the production build
• Run

  npm run serve:dist -- --port=5000

  to preview the production build in port

  5000

Docs

• getting started with this generator
• recipes for integrating other popular technologies like CoffeeScript
• contribution docs and FAQ, good to check before posting an issue

Options

• --skip-welcome-message

  Skips Yeoman's greeting before displaying options.

• --skip-install-message

  Skips the the message displayed after scaffolding has finished and before the dependencies are being installed.

• --skip-install

  Doesn't automatically install dependencies after scaffolding has finished.

• --test-framework=

  Either

  mocha

  or

  jasmine

  . Defaults to

  mocha

  .

Contribute

See the contributing docs.

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License

BSD license