Trey's Blank Slate

This is a project to help to start a fresh website using Grunt.js to do a bunch of stuff.

Installation

First, make sure you have the latest Node and npm. Go to nodejs.org, download and install it.

To get everything setup, just run the setup script.

$ script/setup

To run the project, you can simply run:

$ grunt

Or, in the style of "Scripts To Rule Them All", you can run:

$ script/server

Open localhost:3000 in your browser to see your new project. To see BrowserSync's UI, open localhost:3001.

To update your project if the dependencies have been changed, run:

$ script/update

Next Steps

Delete the existing .git folder. This is your project now.

$ rm -rf .git

• Edit the name, version, and repository fields in package.json.
• Replace the contents of README.md with things relevant to your project.
• Setup a new git repository.

$ git init
$ git add .
$ git commit -m "Starting point based on Trey's Blank Slate."

You might also consider customizing the bootstrap script in the script/ folder. It's only relevant for getting your project set up the first time.

Alternately, you could just install this script.

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Note: src/index.html is mostly HTML5 Boilerplate with stuff stripped out. /css/scss/normalize.scss is from normalize.css.

The idea for this came from the little Solutions Log post I wrote and the fact that I had to keep referring to it to build little one off prototypes I was working on. Now I can just grab a copy of this and get rocking immediately.

You should also check out @elijahmanor's (much, much better thought out) project.