HTML

├── src/                          # Sources
│   ├── partials                  # The folder for storing html parts of the page
│   └── index.html                # Main html-file
└── gulpfile.js                   # Gulp settings file
└── package.json                  # File with the build settings and installed packages
└── README.md                     # Build documentation

Gulp 4 is used

Getting started

gulp - the basic command that runs the build for development using browser-sync

gulp build - the command for the production build of the project. All assets are compressed and optimized for hosting.

gulp cache - the command that should be run after gulp build if you need to upload new files to the hosting without caching.

Folder and file structure

├── src/                          # Sources
│   ├── js                        # Scripts
│   │   ├── main.js               # Main script
│   │   ├── components            # Js-components
│   │   ├── vendor                # The folder for downloading local versions of libraries
│   ├── less                      # Site styles (less preprocessor)
│   │   └── main.less             # Main Style file
│   │   └── global.less           # The file with global settings - resets, fonts, etc.
│   │   └── vendor.less           # The file for connecting library styles from the vendor folder
│   │   └── fonts.less            # The file for connecting fonts (you can use a mixin)
│   │   └── mixins.less           # The file for connecting mixins from the mixins folder
│   │   └── vars.less             # The file for writing css - or less-variables
│   │   ├── components            # Less-components
│   │   ├── mixins                # The folder for saving ready-made less components
│   │   ├── vendor                # The folder for storing local css styles of libraries
│   ├── partials                  # The folder for storing html parts of the page
│   ├── img                       # The folder for storing images
│   │   ├── svg                   # The special folder for converting svg to sprite
│   ├── resources                 # The folder for storing other assets - php, video files, favicon, etc.
│   │   ├── fonts                 # The folder for storing fonts in the woff2 format
│   └── index.html                # Main html-file
└── gulpfile.js                   # Gulp settings file
└── package.json                  # File with the build settings and installed packages
└── README.md                     # Build documentation

Contents

1. npm-scripts
2. Working with html
3. Working with CSS
4. Working with JavaScript
5. Working with fonts
6. Working with images
7. Working with other resources

npm-scripts

You can call gulp scripts via npm. It is also possible to validate html in the assembly.

npm run html - launches the html validator, you need to run it if there are html files in the public folder.

Working with html

Thanks to the gulp-file-include plugin, you can split an html file into various templates that should be stored in the partials folder. It is convenient to divide an html page into sections.

To insert html parts into the main file, use @include('partials/filename.html')

If you want to create a multi - page website, copy index.html, rename as you need, and use.

When using the gulp build command, you will get a minified html code in one line for all html files.

Working with CSS

The assembly uses the less preprocessor.

Styles written in components should be included in main.less. Styles from \fonts, \vars and \mixins are connected in global.less.

To connect third-party css files (libraries) - put them in the vendor folder and connect them in the file vendor.less.

If you want to create your own mixin, do it in the mixins folder, and then connect it to the \mixins.less file.

If you want to use scss variables, connect \vars.less also to main.less or to any other place where it is needed, but be sure to remove :root.

To connect css files, use the @importdirective

Three files are created in the resulting folder public/css:
main.css - for page styles,
global.css - for global styles,
vendor.css - for styles of all libraries used in the project.

When using the gulp build command, you will get a minified css code in one line for all css files.

Working with JavaScript

Support for import and require is not implemented! Files are collected automatically from various folders.

It is better to divide the JS code into components - small js files that contain their own implementation isolated from each other. Place such files in the components folder.

In the file main.js does not connect anything, it is recommended for implementing the general logic of the site.

To connect third-party js files (libraries), put them in the vendor folder.

When using the gulp build command, you will get a minified js code in one line for all js files.

Working with fonts

The build supports only the woff2 format.

Upload the woff2 files to the resources/fonts folder, and then call the @font-face mixin in the _fonts.scss file.

Working with images

Put any images other than favicon in the img folder.

If you need to make an svg sprite, put the svg files needed for the sprite in the img/svg folder. Just leave other svg files in the img folder.

When using the gulp build command, you will get minified images in the final folder img.

Working with other resources

Any resources (assets) of the project that do not have a corresponding folder assigned to them should be stored in the resources folder. These can be video files, php files, favicon, and others.