Tools and conventions for authoring and using declarative configurations for project "boilerplates" that can be consumed by any build system or project scaffolding tool.
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Install with npm:
$ npm install --save boilerplate
Welcome to boilerplate! Here you'll find both the tools and conventions for creating project boilerplates.
What does this do?
Example
In the following example, we define:
site and blog)The configuration is similar to how grunt tasks would be defined.
var boilerplate = require('boilerplate');
boilerplate({
marketing: {
site: {
src: 'templates/mktg/*.hbs',
dest: 'site/'
},
blog: {
src: 'content/blog/*.md',
dest: 'site/blog/'
}
},
developer: {
site: {
src: 'templates/dev/*.hbs',
dest: 'site/developer'
},
blog: {
src: 'content/dev/blog/*.md',
dest: 'site/developer/blog/'
}
}
});
The Boilerplate library "expands" this configuration into a normalized object that can easily be passed to gulp, grunt, assemble, metalsmith, or even yeoman, for scaffolding out various parts of a blog, website, web application or whatever you think a boilerplate might be useful for!
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Just to show how easy it is to convert an existing project into a Boilerplate project using the most popular boilerplate of them all: html5-boilerplate.
(Get hands-on with the h5bp recipe)
Install h5bp
First, install boilerplate and html5-boilerplate:
$ npm i boilerplate && git clone https://github.com/h5bp/html5-boilerplate.git vendor/h5bp
Define the boilerplate
The following examples returns a normalized configuration object for every file in the html5-boilerplate project, organized exactly the way the project itself is organized.
var Boilerplate = require('boilerplate');
var h5bp = new Boilerplate({
options: {
cwd: 'vendor/h5bp/dist'
},
root: {src: ['{.*,*.*}'], dest: 'src/'},
css: {src: ['css/*.css'], dest: 'src/'},
doc: {src: ['doc/*.md'], dest: 'src/'},
js: {src: ['js/**/*.js'], dest: 'src/'}
});
console.log(h5bp);
Results in the following object:
{
options: {
cwd: 'vendor/h5bp/dist'
},
config: {},
targets: {
root: {
options: {
cwd: 'vendor/h5bp/dist'
},
files: [
{
src: [
'vendor/h5bp/dist/.DS_Store',
'vendor/h5bp/dist/.editorconfig',
'vendor/h5bp/dist/.gitattributes',
'vendor/h5bp/dist/.gitignore',
'vendor/h5bp/dist/.htaccess',
'vendor/h5bp/dist/404.html',
'vendor/h5bp/dist/apple-touch-icon.png',
'vendor/h5bp/dist/browserconfig.xml',
'vendor/h5bp/dist/crossdomain.xml',
'vendor/h5bp/dist/favicon.ico',
'vendor/h5bp/dist/humans.txt',
'vendor/h5bp/dist/index.html',
'vendor/h5bp/dist/LICENSE.txt',
'vendor/h5bp/dist/robots.txt',
'vendor/h5bp/dist/tile-wide.png',
'vendor/h5bp/dist/tile.png'
],
dest: 'src/',
options: {
cwd: 'vendor/h5bp/dist'
},
name: 'scaffold'
}
]
},
css: {
options: {
cwd: 'vendor/h5bp/dist'
},
files: [
{
src: [
'vendor/h5bp/dist/css/main.css',
'vendor/h5bp/dist/css/normalize.css'
],
dest: 'src/',
options: {
cwd: 'vendor/h5bp/dist'
},
name: 'scaffold'
}
]
},
doc: {
options: {
cwd: 'vendor/h5bp/dist'
},
files: [
{
src: [
'vendor/h5bp/dist/doc/css.md',
'vendor/h5bp/dist/doc/extend.md',
'vendor/h5bp/dist/doc/faq.md',
'vendor/h5bp/dist/doc/html.md',
'vendor/h5bp/dist/doc/js.md',
'vendor/h5bp/dist/doc/misc.md',
'vendor/h5bp/dist/doc/TOC.md',
'vendor/h5bp/dist/doc/usage.md'
],
dest: 'src/',
options: {
cwd: 'vendor/h5bp/dist'
},
name: 'scaffold'
}
]
},
js: {
options: {
cwd: 'vendor/h5bp/dist'
},
files: [
{
src: [
'vendor/h5bp/dist/js/main.js',
'vendor/h5bp/dist/js/plugins.js',
'vendor/h5bp/dist/js/vendor/jquery-1.11.3.min.js',
'vendor/h5bp/dist/js/vendor/modernizr-2.8.3.min.js'
],
dest: 'src/',
options: {
cwd: 'vendor/h5bp/dist'
},
name: 'scaffold'
}
]
}
}
}
What is a boilerplate?
A boilerplate is a project with generic, reusable code, files or content that is intended to be used as a starting point for creating new projects.
What does this project provide?
What does this NOT provide?
Workflows and tools for actually generating new projects from a boilerplate. This is a job much better suited for build systems like assemble, gulp, grunt, broccoli, and yeoman.
If you publish a library that works with Boilerplate, please let us know about it!
Many definitions exist for the terms "boilerplate", "scaffold" and "template". The following definitions describe these concepts as it relates to this project.
| type | description |
|---|---|
| template | Resuable file, code or content which contains "placeholder" values that will eventually be replaced with real values by a rendering (template) engine |
| scaffold | Consists of one or more templates or source files and serves as a "temporary support structure" that may be used to initialize a new project, or to provide ad-hoc "components" throughout the duration of a project. |
| boilerplate | Boilerplates consist of all of the necessary files required to initialize a complete project. |
v0.6.0
removed: targets are no longer added to boilerplate.targets. Instead they are added to boilerplate.scaffolds.default.targets. As a result there is no need to loop over both targets and scaffolds at build timePull requests and stars are always welcome. For bugs and feature requests, please create an issue.
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