• 💬 Intro
• 📦 Dependencies
• 🚀 Getting Started
• 🚩 Commands
• 🍱 Technologies used
• 🔧 Structure
• 🔨 Build
  • 🎨 Build CSS
  • ✅ Build Structure
  • 🌈 Build JS
• 📄 License
• 🐧 Author

• ES2017 - support through compiler Babel.

• Node - is an open-source, cross-platform JavaScript run-time environment that executes JavaScript code outside of a browser.

• Cypress - is a fast, easy and reliable testing for anything that runs in a browser.

• Sass - is the most mature, stable, and powerful professional grade CSS extension language in the world.

• Sassdoc - is a documentation system to build pretty and powerful docs in the blink of an eye.

• PostCSS - is a tool for transforming CSS with JavaScript.

• Critical - extracts & inlines critical-path (above-the-fold) CSS from HTML.

• Gulp - is a toolkit for automating painful or time-consuming tasks in your development workflow.

• Webpack - is a bundler for modules.

• Imagemin - minify PNG, JPEG, JPG, GIF and SVG images.

• Uglify - is a JavaScript parser, minifier, compressor and beautifier toolkit.

• BrowserSync - is a time-saving synchronised browser testing.

• ESlint - is to provide a pluggable linting utility for JavaScript.

• HTMLHint - is a Static Code Analysis Tool for HTML.

• Stylelint - is a mighty, modern linter that helps you avoid errors and enforce conventions in your styles.

• Prettier - is an opinionated code formatter.

• Editorconfig - helps developers define and maintain consistent coding styles between different editors and IDEs.

• Git - is a distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects.

Class names that are generated by "Meow", use the BEM syntax. BEM is one of the easiest ways to write Object Oriented CSS . Surely you can build a lot more delicate with Smacss, but should not forget that the issue is simply a principle of object-oriented programming here. One should therefore not make a religion out of the topic - the final product will always be CSS with all its drawbacks.

The Develeloper is free to decide whether he wants his class named after the BEM build syntax, in which case you can rely on the BEM mixins, thus obtaining a central node to make global modifications to the syntax.

.root__child => Element
.root--modifier => Modifier
.root---instance => Instance

Instance is similar to a modifier, with the difference that the styles of the parent element are applied. The instance can then be expanded with additional Styles.

By default BEM elements marked with a double underscore __ and BEM Modifier with a double hyphen --, Instances with a tripple hyphen ---. Who does not agree, this may change the Sass Setup file (src/framework/_defaults.scss) on the by adjusting the $meow-bem Map accordingly.

The necessary files can be found under src/framework/. Those who want to can extend the framework for specific projects.

Framework Structure

To generate the CSS file, you use the main.scss from the style directory (src/style/). But first the structure:

Styling Structure

You not need to worry about CSS3 prefixes the gulp-autoprefixer will insert it on any Compile.

Loader File With the _loader.scss file, all required files are loaded. The order is already given proof should not be changed.

Setup File Almost all settings can be changed and extended over _setup.scss (find under src/style/).

We've outsourced the Scss Grid Framework in his own NPM Package to use it in different environments You can find it here: https://github.com/davidhellmann/baukasten-grid Or directly to the Readme

To modify you settings you must open the src/style/app/_______settings/_settings.breakpoints.scss and there you can change what you want.

The dafaults look like this:

// Settings
$bk-grid-settings-custom: (
  // You want to use CSS Grid?
  // @Boolean
  // default: true
  cssgrid: true,

  // Your Project must support older browsers? No Problem, we've a Fallback (flexbox) here!
  // @Boolean
  // default: true
  cssgrid-fallback: true,

  // You want to use Flexbox only? Also no Problem! But you must set the "cssgrid-fallback" and "cssgrid" to false.
  // @Boolean
  // default: false
  flexboxgrid: false,

  // This add some CSS Styleing to the "section", "row" and "col" classes.
  // @Boolean
  // default: false
  testing: false,

  // Naming Conventions? No Problem. You can choose you prefix!
  // @String
  // default: 'o-'
  prefix: 'o-',

  // Units are for Paddings and Margins. All Paddings an Margins are Fluid.
  // That means that on the smallest breakpoint the Padding on each col side
  // is: gutter * gutter-min-factor (8px * 1) and on the biggest breakpoint it
  // is: gutter * gutter-max-factor (8px * 2)
  // For Margins top it is the same with the Vertical factors.
  units: (
    gutter: 8px,
    gutter-min-factor: 1,
    gutter-max-factor: 2,
    gutter-min-vertical-factor: 1,
    gutter-max-vertical-factor: 2
  ),

  // Class Creation
  // Not every projects need all this offset / push / pull classes. You decide!
  // @Boolean
  // default: true
  offset-classes: true,
  push-classes: true,
  pull-classes: true,

  // Disbale Padding Horizontal for Sections. Rows. Cols
  // @Boolean
  // default: false
  disable-padding-horizontal: false,

  // Breakpoints must have at least a "min" and a "max". The other Breakpoints as u like
  // We use all the time "min-width".
  // Cols are how many cols can have a row on that specific breakpoint.
  breakpoints: (
    min: (from: 320px, cols: 6, create-classes: true),
    xs:  (from: 400px, cols: 6, create-classes: true),
    s:   (from: 600px, cols: 12, create-classes: true),
    m:   (from: 800px, cols: 12, create-classes: true),
    l:   (from: 1000px, cols: 24, create-classes: true),
    max: (from: 1440px, cols: 24, create-classes: true)
  )
);

To generate HTML files, for example, to build a prototype, you can use HTML compiler like Pug or Twig. Pug and Twig differ less in their features, more in the syntax. The compiler will but set the project start (can also be completely disabled).

When active, the generator is in the src/ directory template/ directory integrated, there is also some basis are files (example with Twig).

Important

By default the compiler is disabled. To switch from html sructure to Twig you can do next steps:

• In config.json move to template.compiler and switch false on true;

• In webpack.config.base.babel.js comment HtmlWebpackPlugin call:

  // comment this block of code
  new HtmlWebpackPlugin({
    filename: 'index.html',
    template: utils.meowConf.src.structure   'index.html',
    inject: true,
    hash: false,
    minify: {
      removeComments: true,
      collapseWhitespace: true,
      removeAttributeQuotes: false,
      minifyCSS: true,
      minifyJS: true,
    },
    chunksSortMode: 'dependency',
  }),

Files in the root of the template directory are compiled to HTML files. In parts/ are larger template blocks as the header and the block to load the script files. In templates/ directory contains Main Templates, as a basis for Child Templates in the root.

The compiler will only work with the data of the template/ directory

If you work for example on a WordPress template, the compiler would there rather inappropriate, because you actually have to copy only those files. To stay with the example of the Wordpress template, all the files for the template, added to the structure directory. Gulp will copy these files when changing to the appropriate directory.

The Compiler is this, if not already, be switched off in the config.json (template.compiler). Gulp-Watch will then monitor the Structure directory (src/structure/) on changes to the files .

In src/js/ directory is the main.js file (can be renamed). That is our main file events and scripts are controlled with Javascript. The file passes through a Gulp task, all in addition ESLint also the advantage that you can attach partials.

The filename of the partials should begin with an underscore.

To use JS files, they must first be processed with Gulp. JS files are then either in the JS directory dist/assets/js/ copied or they are combined and copied to the JS directory.

In the config.json you will find the following block:

Everything under jsCopy will be simply copied, under jsCombine identifies this files for the Combination. When you include new JS Files start the rebuild process:

gulp rebuild:js