generator-ui

A Yeoman generator for scaffolding simple web frontends. I personally use this as the base for my GitHub page.

Built-in Packages

• Sass: CSS Preprocessor
• Compass: Sass mixin library
• Bootstrap: Responsive CSS framework
• RequireJS: Asynchronous JavaScript file and module loader
• jQuery: Feature-rich JavaScript library
• Hogan.js: Template engine
• The Intern: Testing framework
• Grunt: JavaScript task runner

Creating a new project

1. Setup npm properly for your development environment.

2. Install Yeoman and its required libraries:

npm install -g yo grunt-cli

1. Install the ui generator:

npm install -g generator-ui

1. Create a new directory and initialize a Git repo on it for your new project:

mkdir your-project
cd your-project
git init
git remote add origin https://github.com/some-user/some-project.git

1. Run the generator:

yo ui

1. Answer the questions.

2. STRONGLY RECOMMENDED: commit the generated code to your git repository before making any modifications. This will make it much easier to see a diff of the work you have done vs. the generator output.

git add --all
git commit -m "Initial commit"

Your code

See the README.md file in your newly created project for more information.

Release Versions

This repo uses grunt-bump and Semantic Versioning to version and tag releases. To release a new version, run the appropriate command:

grunt release:major       # bump major version, eg. 1.0.2 -> 2.0.0
grunt release:minor       # bump minor version, eg. 0.1.3 -> 0.2.0
grunt release:patch       # bump patch version, eg. 0.0.1 -> 0.0.2
grunt release:prerelease  # bump pre-release version, eg. 1.0.0 -> 1.0.0-1

Make sure to push tags:

git push --tags origin master

Publish the package to npm's public registry:

npm publish

To make sure everything worked just fine, go to http://npmjs.com/package/generator-ui.

Heads up! To publish, you must have a user on the npm registry. If you don't have one, create it with npm adduser. If you created one on the site, use npm login to store the credentials on the client. You can use npm config ls to ensure that the credentials are stored on your client. Check that it has been added to the registry by going to http://npmjs.com/~.

Semantic Versioning

Given a version number MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH, increment the:

1. MAJOR version when you make incompatible API changes,
2. MINOR version when you add functionality in a backwards-compatible manner, and
3. PATCH version when you make backwards-compatible bug fixes.

Additional labels for pre-release and build metadata are available as extensions to the MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH format.

See the Semantic Versioning specification for more information.

Release History

See the CHANGELOG.