This is an experimental frontend boilerplate to play around with future technologies and specs that are drafts. Instead of slow polyfills the approach is to implement compilers and transpiles to transform the source files down to the current state of the art. In a perfect candyland like world at some near point in the future these middlewares can be removed and the browsers implement all the features. Because of this, take this kind advice: Please do not use in production!!
- node.js because JavaScript kicks ass!
- Express 4 application
- Livereload server
- Super fast middlewares that recompile on file change and serve the compiled result out of memory to avoid slow IO
- Use the commonJS module pattern in the browser with browserify
- ES6 syntax with the traceur-compiler: This adds about 1400 lines of polyfill code
- inline source maps for easy debugging
- Well not a real future technology but it is nice anyways
- autoprefixer to get rid of vendor prefixes
- normalize.css via npm (or any other lib)
- inline source maps for easy debugging
- Write future CSS with vars and crazy shit like that
- includes autoprefixer as well
First, you need to install all packages via npm:
$ npm install
Start the server:
$ npm start
Then visit http://localhost:3000
If you want to run the server on a different port:
$ PORT=12345 npm start