A front-end web application template based on HTML5 Boilerplate and extended with LESS style sheets and Gulp.js task runner.

Clone the git repo:

git clone -o base https://github.com/KriaSoft/Web-App-Boilerplate.git MyApp
cd .\MyApp          # change the current directory to your project directory
npm install -g gulp # install gulp task runner globally, if you don't have it installed already
npm install         # install dev tools listed in the package.json file

Start a task runner to watch for modifications in source files and compile modified files in the background:

gulp

And when you need to pull and merge the latest changes into your project, run:

git checkout master
git fetch base
git merge base/master

• HTML5 ready. Use the new elements with confidence.
• Cross-browser compatible (Chrome, Firefox, IE8+, Opera, Safari).
• Designed with progressive enhancement in mind.
• Includes Normalize.css for CSS normalizations and common bug fixes.
• The latest jQuery via CDN, with a local fallback.
• The latest Modernizr build for feature detection.
• Placeholder CSS Media Queries.
• Useful CSS helpers.
• Default print CSS, performance optimized.
• Protection against any stray console.log causing JavaScript errors in older browsers.
• An optimized Google Analytics snippet.
• Apache server caching, compression, and other configuration defaults for Grade-A performance.
• Cross-domain Ajax and Flash.
• "Delete-key friendly." Easy to strip out parts you don't need.
• Extensive inline and accompanying documentation.
• LESS-based style sheets
• Bundling and minification

Take a look at the documentation table of contents. This documentation is bundled with the project, which makes it readily available for offline reading and provides a useful starting point for any documentation you want to write about your project.

Anyone and everyone is welcome to contribute.