Vila's blank Project
Startup HTML template based on Gulp & Bootstrap 4

Author: Vilaribov

It is all-inclusive start HTML5 template with Bootstrap 4 (grid & reboot), Gulp, Sass, Browsersync, Autoprefixer, Clean-CSS, Uglify, Rsync and Bower (libs path) support. The template contains a .htaccess file with caching rules for web server.

Cross-browser compatibility: IE9+.

The template uses a Sass with Sass or Scss syntax (optional).

How to use it

1. Install Node Modules: npm i;
2. Check updates in package.json file ncu;
3. Run the template: gulp.

Gulp tasks:

• gulp: run default gulp task (sass, js, watch, browserSync) for web development;
• rsync: project deployment on the server from dist folder via RSYNC;

Rules for working with the starting HTML template

1. All HTML files should have similar initial content as in app/index.html;
2. Template Basic Images Start comment in app/index.html - all your custom template basic images (og:image for social networking, favicons for a variety of devices);
3. Custom Browsers Color Start comment in app/index.html: set the color of the browser head on a variety of devices;
4. Custom HTML comment in app/index.html - all your custom HTML;
5. For installing new jQuery library, just run the command "bower i plugin-name" in the terminal. Libraries are automatically placed in the folder app/libs. Bower must be installed in the system (npm i -g bower). Then place all jQuery libraries paths in the 'libs' task (gulpfile.js);
6. All custom JS located in app/js/common.js;
7. All Sass vars placed in app/sass/_vars.sass | app/scss/_vars.scss;
8. All Bootstrap media queries placed in app/sass/_media.sass | app/scss/_media.scss;
9. All libraries CSS styles placed in app/sass/_libs.sass | app/scss/_libs.scss;
10. Rename ht.access to .htaccess before place it in your web server. This file contain rules for files caching on web server.