Thomas Lite is a tool to develop slide templates for Ed.
Thomas requires access to Ed's development environment.
You will also need Node, Brunch and Bower installed on your machine. Scaffolt is optional, but is useful if creating a lot of templates.
You can clone Thomas Lite using brunch.
brunch new https://github.com/Creative-Licence-Digital/ThomasLite.git your-template
You can ignore this step if you have already forked the repo via GitHub, and instead just run the bower install and npm install commands.
Now you are ready to run Thomas...
brunch w -s
Access Thomas on localhost:3333. Thomas watches for any changes you make and reloads the page.
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Templates documents the different files needed by a template and how to create new templates.
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[Slide Methods](docs/Slide Methods.md) give an overview of common methods made available to every template view.
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[DOM Structure](docs/DOM Structure.md) shows an overview of how Thomas is structured.
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CSS components provide highly abstracted styles to avoid repetitive CSS declarations bloating the core CSS framework. Always check whether a class aleady exists, and use these styles to help maintain a lightweight codebase.
- Blocks
- Grids
- [Content Alignment](docs/css/Content Alignment.md)
- Typography
- [Animations and Transitions](docs/css/Animations and Transitions.md)
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JS libraries provide core functionality in a modular and re-useable format. Like Thomas's CSS, use pre-existing modules when appropriate.