Unmaintained – :construction_worker: The aim of this project is to help you to build your things. From Bootstrap themes over static websites to single page applications.
Overview
Baumeister is a frontend build workflow tool that helps in building things like Bootstrap themes, static websites, and single page applications. It offers features like file structure with maintainability and upgradability focus, webpack and npm scripts-based build setup, generating static sites with handlebars templates, transpiling, bundling, and minifying code, optimizing images, and more. Baumeister mainly uses webpack for its core functionalities and provides npm scripts for project handling.
Features
- File Structure: Baumeister provides a file structure that focuses on maintainability and upgradability.
- Build Setup: Baumeister uses webpack and npm scripts for transpiling, bundling, and minifying code.
- Static Site Generation: Baumeister allows users to generate static sites easily using handlebars templates.
- ES6 and Sass Support: Baumeister supports transpiling ES6 code and Sass stylesheets.
- Size Visualization: Baumeister has an interactive zoomable treemap feature to visualize the size of bundled files.
- Code Optimization: Baumeister removes console output and debugger statements in production files and adds vendor prefixes.
- Linting and Formatting: Baumeister provides support for linting JavaScript, Sass, and HTML and allows automatic code formatting.
- Image Optimization: Baumeister optimizes images in a lossless manner.
Installation
To install Baumeister, follow these steps:
- Make sure you have Node.js (>=6.0.0) installed on your machine. You can check the availability of Node.js and npm by running the following command in your terminal:
- If Node.js and npm are not installed, install Node.js first. On macOS, it is recommended to install Node.js using Homebrew or the Node Version Manager (NVM) to avoid potential permission problems.
- Once Node.js is installed, navigate to the root of your installation directory and run the following command to install the dependencies:
Summary
Baumeister is a powerful frontend build workflow tool that offers a range of features for building projects like Bootstrap themes, static websites, and single page applications. With its intuitive file structure, build setup using webpack and npm scripts, and support for various optimizations like code minification, image optimization, and size visualization, Baumeister provides a comprehensive solution for efficient frontend development.
