Locomotive front-end boilerplate

Front-end Boilerplate for projects by Locomotive.

Requirements

Prerequisite	How to check	How to install
Node.js 4.1.1	node -v	nodejs.org
Grunt >= 0.1.13	grunt -v	npm install -g grunt-cli

Getting started

1. Get the latest node modules

2. npm install -g npm-check-updates

3. npm-check-updates -u

4. npm install

5. Run grunt and start coding

• grunt

Grunt

Each Grunt task has it's own file in the grunt_tasks folder.

BrowserSync

BrowserSync will automatically inject, refresh and sync all your browsers.

Run grunt sync

CSS

• We use Sass for our CSS Preprocessor
• itcss CSS architecture
• More Minimal BEM like CSS Syntax: .block_element -modifier
• More Transparent UI Code with Namespaces

Sass import order

• Settings: Global variables, site-wide settings, config switches, etc.
• Tools: Site-wide mixins and functions.
• Generic: Low-specificity, far-reaching rulesets (e.g. resets).
• Base: Unclassed HTML elements (e.g. a {}, blockquote {}, address {}).
• Objects: Objects, abstractions, and design patterns (e.g. .o-media {}).
• Components: Discrete, complete chunks of UI (e.g. .c-carousel {}).
• Trumps: High-specificity, very explicit selectors. Overrides and helper classes (e.g. .u-hidden {}).

Grid

We are using a simple inline-block grid system.

Usage

Insert a o-grid block and add o-grid_item elements inside it. No rows that contain floats, no twelve columns system; just the number of items you want, with the classes names you want, inside a single block.

• Include the grid mixins in your components classes.
• Create custom width grid items by including the grid_item mixin and adding the widths you need or just include the helpers mixins with fractions like names.
• Add media queries, on the helpers mixins or on your custom components to change the grid items widths, for your content, on different screen sizes.

Demo

Form

We included some basic CSS styles and resets to the form elements so we can easily have custom style form elements that work on every browsers.

Demo

JavaScript

• We use HTML data attributes to init our JavaScript modules: data-app, data-widget and data-template
• All DOM related JavaScript is hooked to js- prefixed HTML classes
• jQuery is globally included