generator-webapp

Scaffold out a front-end web app

Web app generator

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

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
Automagically wire-up dependencies installed with Bower

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 task in gulpfile accordingly.

Getting Started

Install dependencies: npm install --global yo gulp-cli bower
Install the generator: npm install --global generator-webapp
Run yo webapp to scaffold your webapp
Run gulp serve to preview and watch for changes
Run bower install --save <package> to install frontend dependencies
Run gulp serve:test to run the tests in the browser
Run gulp to build your webapp for production
Run gulp serve:dist to preview the production build

Docs

getting started with this generator
recipes for integrating other popular technologies like CoffeeScript
details about our Bower setup
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 Skips the automatic execution of bower and npm after scaffolding has finished.
--test-framework=<framework> Either mocha or jasmine. Defaults to mocha.
--no-babel Scaffolds without Babel support. This only applies to app/scripts, you can still write ES2015 in the gulpfile, depending on what your version of Node supports.