generator-yolo

Awesome static site generator using Webpack!

Technologies

• Webpack
• SASS
• PUG for templating
• ES6

Getting Started

• Install Node.js

Check to see if you already have Node installed. Do this by bringing up a terminal/command prompt and type node -v. If the response shows a version at or above v0.5.x, you are all set and can proceed to installing Yeoman. If you see an error and/or your version is too low, navigate to the Node.js website and install Node from there.

• Install Yeoman

npm install -g yo

• Install generator-yolo

npm install -g generator-yolo

• Generating new project

  Create a new folder with intended project name. open command line and navigate to the newly created folder.

  Once you are in the project folder. Run the following command.

yo yolo

Generator will automatically run npm install once the project files has been created.

Once everything is installed, you will see a project structure like below:

├── src
|   ├── _data                  # JSON files that add data to templates
|   ├── _fonts                 # Font files
|   ├── _images                # Images
|   ├── _layouts               # Layout structure for app
|   |   └── base.jade
|   ├── _modules               # Reusable modules
|   |   └── button
|   |       ├── button.pug
|   |       ├── button.js
|   |       └── button.scss
|   ├── _styles               # Global styles, mixins, variables, etc
        ├── _fonts.scss       # Custom font entries
|   |   └── main.scss         # Main stylesheet (import everything to this file)
|   ├── _scripts              # Global scripts, base classes, etc
|   |   └── index.js          # Main bootstrap file
|   ├── _fonts                # Fonts (Example, will not be generated)
|   ├── index.jade            # Homepage template
|   ├── favicon.ico
|   └── robots.txt
├── webpack.config.js         # Webpack Config
├── postcss.config.js         # Postcss config
└── package.json              # Dependencies and site/folder configuration

Congratulations! You should now have successfully created a YOLO project and are ready to start building out your site/app.

Now you can run the following tasks:

• npm run dev for previewing your site/app on a development server.
• npm run build for generating a production version of your site/app.

Sub-Generators

• yolo:page
• yolo:module

Note: Generators need to be run from the root directory of your app.

Default Generators

Page

Creates a new page.

Example:

$ yo yolo:page contact

Produces:

src/contact/index.pug

Module

Creates a new module.

Example:

$ yo yolo:module header

Produces:

src/_modules/header/header.pug
src/_modules/header/header.scss
src/_modules/header/header.js

Specify custom folder structure

$ yo yolo:module components/header

Produces:

src/_modules/components/header/header.pug
src/_modules/components/header/header.scss
src/_modules/components/header/header.js

Example #2: Specifying module as atomic

This is a great way to create modules that adhere to atomic design

$ yo yolo:module link --atomic=atom

Produces:

src/_modules/atoms/link/link.pug
src/_modules/atoms/link/link.scss
src/_modules/atoms/link/link.js

NOTE: Possible --atomic options: atom, molecule, organism

Data Files

If you want to load global data into your PUG templates, you can add JSON files in src/_data folder.

For example, add menu.json in src/_data folder:

{
  "name": "Home",
  "link": "/",
  "category": "Page",
  "status": "Development"
}

And it will be added to the site.data object so it can be used like so:

div
  h1= site.data.menu.name

Which outputs to:

<div>
  <h1>Home</h1>
</div>

Image Minification options

please visit the following link to learn more about image minification options.

Imagemin Webpack Plugin

Migrating from Generator Yeogurt to YOLO

If you are migrating a current yeogurt project to yolo, you need to do some changes in the files.

1. In Yeogurt global json data is available via the variable site , so that you can access the date like site.data.somedata . In YOLO global data is passed to pug via HTML WEBPACK PLUGIN, and the it is accessed via htmlWebpackPlugin.options.data.somedata . For new builds the generated pug template files already containes a variable - site = htmlWebpackPlugin.options which will let you use global data as you always use it. When migrating you need to create this variable manually using search and replace.

2. Plugins using browserify-shim In webpack jQuery is automatically loaded with the following references, So you don't need to import jquery in to your individual modules. Also different references of jQuery is automatically handled to avoid conflicts. See the reference code below. See Webpack Provide Plugin for more details.

   new webpack.ProvidePlugin({
     $: 'jquery',
     jQuery: 'jquery',
     'window.jQuery': 'jquery',
     $j: 'jquery'
   }),
   

   What you need to do for easy import of these plugins is to register it under resolve.alias in the webpack.config.js. See below for example,

   resolve: {
       modules: [
         "node_modules"
       ],
       alias: {
         niceSelect: path.resolve(__dirname, 'node_modules/jquery-nice-select/js/jquery.nice-select.js'),
       }
   },
   

   Then you can import the module like import niceSelect from 'niceSelect'; so

   More information on this can be found at resolve webpack

3. One major difference between YOLO and YEOGURT is YOLO doesn't create a tmp folder when running development mode. Everything is serverd via available memmory.

Getting To Know Yeoman

• Feel free to learn more about Yeoman.

License

MIT © Akhil Prasenan