b4st-extended-webpack – A Bootstrap 4 Starter Theme for WordPress with Webpack 4 assets management

Version 1.2.1

Based on https://github.com/SimonPadbury/b4st

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b4st is a simple WordPress starter theme loaded with Bootstrap 4.

Thanks to Webpack this starter theme also includes tree-shaked Font Awesome 5

Features of b4st-extended-webpack

• A little more advanced programming level required

• Reorganized code, object-oriented approach, scss, ES6

• Internal logging

• Custom post types scaffolding

• Translations-ready

• Bootstrap 4

  • Update thru npm
  • Easy module-based js bundling: loads only used modules
  • Serve with dedicated vendors.min.js

• Popper, util.js

  • Imported automatically with Webpack

• jQuery 3

  • Update whit npm
  • Serve with dedicated vendors.min.js

• Font Awesome 5

  • Easy managed icons set
  • Possibility to use Pro version, just add .npmrc (if needed) and install pro-* packages with npm

• Modernizr

  • Stripped out

• Slick.js

  • Includes popular slick.js carousel

Bugs

• Emits empty styles*.js after npm run build, this might be fixed with Webpack 5, for now - just delete or leave those files alone, it useless.

Using / Changing

• made desired changes to package.json, webpack.config.js and/or other files
• open b4st/assets directory with terminal, type npm i, then npm run build for production or npm run dev for developing
• wait until new files will be generated by Webpack

TODO

• getters/setters for options
• composer support
• clean app structure and bootstrapping