An opinionated command-line tool for generating front end boilerplate and workflow.
To use Forefront, install it globally with npm.
npm install forefront --global
You can now use Forefront to scaffold front end tools for new projects by running the forefront command.
For example, to create a new project about Ninja Turtles, I would type the following in my terminal:
mkdir ninja-turtles
cd ninja-turtles
forefront
As a Front End developer there are a lot of tools best practices surrounding workflow. My preferred style often forced me to modify or copy paste snippets from different boilerplates and grunt or gulpfiles. I made this command line tool to bootstrap my own client side structure and workflow more easily.
So when I say it is 'opinionated', I basically mean that I made it for myself.
One day I was setting up my usual workflow with GruntJS and I thought to myself: 'This seems to be a lot of dependencies to install simply to repeat what NPM can already do.' As it turns out, I was not the first person to think this.
- If other Front End developers show interest in this tool, I would make modifications to provide more customization options and modules.
- Work towards version 1. See the issues on Github for items that need to still need to be completed and features I may be adding.
Copyright (c) 2015, Adam Waselnuk
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