This is a skeleton to build static websties using Pug and Sass, plus a live-reload webserver for faster development. It uses:
- Gulp to automate build tasks, plus Gulp Connect to provide a local server with live reload .
- Pug template engine to streamline html writing.
- Sass, to modularize and minimize the CSS written.
- Bootstrap, Framework front-end.
- Jquery, Framework Javascript.
- Font-Awesome, Icons and social logos
Extra things to make your website faster:
- CSS minification: both CSS and SASS files are automatically minified.
- HTML minification: the output of Pug files is minified.
- Clone locally or download this repo, e.g.: * ``
- Install (if you don't have them):
* Node.js: Just download v13.5.0 and install. Alternatively, if you're on OS X, you can do
brew install node
. * Gulp: In a shell console typenpm install -g gulp-cli
. * Gulp plugins and app dependencies: Open the repo directory in the console and typenpm install
or, shorter,npm i
.- This will install any neded Node modules (cssmin, Pug, sass...)
Within the download you'll find the following directories and files:
├── src Working directory. Contains some sample files
│ ├── assets Static assets for the site
│ │ ├── css Yours or others' CSS files, e.g. bootstrap.css. Will be minified.
│ │ ├── fonts Custom fonts
│ │ ├── js Yours or others' JS files, e.j. jquery.js
│ │ └── robots.txt Default robots.txt (allows crawling everything)
│ ├── images Images in here get minified by gulp-imagemin.
│ │ └── *
│ ├── js Scripts in here get minified by gulp-uglify
│ │ └── *
│ ├── pug Pug files to be processed by gulp-pug.
│ │ ├── templates Partial views.
│ │ ├── index.pug Sample index.
│ │ └── *.pug Your Pug files.
│ └── sass SASS files to be processed by gulp-less.
│ ├── style.sass Sample style.
│ └── *.sass Your sass files.
├── public Build directory. Don't put anything here, Gulp does.
│ ├── css Minified CSS from assets and compiled LESS.
│ │ Bootstrap and FontAwesome
│ ├── fonts Copied asset fonts.
│ ├── webfonts Copied asset fonts from fontawesome.
│ ├── images Minfied asset images.
│ ├── js Copied asset Javascript.
│ ├── robots.txt Copied asset robots.txt.
│ └── *.html Compiled Pug files. Html is minified.
├── gulpfile.js Gulp tasks configuration
├── package.json Package configuration
└── README.md This file
Note that everything in src/assets/ just gets copied to public/js. For example, src/assets/js are just copied, while src/js get processed by gulp-uglify. The same would happen with images found in src/assets instead of src/images.
Everything is run with Gulp.
Defined gulp tasks are:
gulp
to run all default tasks only oncegulp server
to run all tasks AND start the webserver plus a watch task. This will automatically process changes, in real time, in your source files and make them available in the local web server, and will also automatically reload your browser.gulp dev
remove public folder and then run all tasks AND start the webserver plus a watch task.gulp clean
remove public folder
- Run
gulp server
- Open
http://localhost:3000
in your browser. This simple html files contains some hints if you don't know how to start.
- gulpfile.js defines the tasks that are done.
- To easily modify directory names and file matcher at your discretion, they're all defined in constants.
src/
dir is where you put your code and assets.public/
dir is fully auto-generated by Gulp. Your HTML files and everything else will be here.
Just copy into your server everything generated in the public/
dir and you should be fine to go.
Make sure that your Pug templates generate an index.html or that your server is configured to serve any other file you want as default.
It's also possible to configure you server to automatically deploy the /public
folder from a branch of your Git fork, but it's out of the scope of this Readme.