Site Igniter

Site Igniter is a GUI wrapper around the Sparkbox static template build process.

Requirements

Site Igniter requires a few things:

• node must be installed, this gives us node and npm.
• There must be a valid package.json file in the root of the project. It must also define a start npm script.
• The output of the start script should contain the port that the server is running on. Something like: The app is running on localhost:3000.

How it works

Site Igniter is a giant drag and drop target. To get started you drag the project directory onto the window.

Once the app recognizes your project it will find and parse the package.json file for the dependencies to install and the command to start the app.

Development

Site Igniter is an Electron app that uses React for all it's views. It uses SCSS for generating CSS. We also use Webpack which lets us use ES6.

• npm start should compile new JS and CSS and start watching the JS for new changes.

• npm rebuild will run the electron-rebuild command.

• npm package will generate a built app file for Mac OS X.