front-end-boilerplate

Modern, optimised, minimal front end boilerplate; installed and kept up to date via PNPM.

Will play nice(st) with the latest versions of modern browsers:-

• Edge
• Firefox
• Chromium
• Safari

Get started

• git clone https://github.com/jmsedwrdmnkme/front-end-boilerplate.git
• cd front-end-boilerplate
• pnpm install
• gulp
• Start building!

Features

Javascript

• Bootstrap v5.3.3
• Fully vanilla, no frameworks here!
• Javascript scripts process (uglify, compression, concat)
• Webpack via Gulp watch task runner for modular imports
• Native deferred loading of JS

CSS

• Bootstrap v5.3.3
• SASS styles process (compression, concat)
• PurgeCSS to rid of bloat and unused styles
• Critical for inlining of critical styles and deferred loading of non-critical styles

Assets

• Handlebars HTML templating process (featuring partials)
• Imagemin IMG process (image optimisation and SVG minification)
• WebP conversion for imagery (optimised file size output)
• SVG icon sprite (generated inline from SVG assets)
• Sitemap.xml auto generated (using file creation/update date and time)
• BrowserSync process (auto reload on file save/update)