OptimizedHTML - Start HTML Template

Author: WebDesign Master | Manual

OptimizedHTML is all-inclusive, optimized for Google PageSpeed start HTML5 template with Bootstrap (grid only), Gulp, Sass, Browsersync, Autoprefixer, PostCSS, Uglify, gulp-imagemin, Vinyl-FTP, rsync and Bower (libs path) support. The template contains a .htaccess file with caching rules for web server.

OptimizedHTML Start Template uses the best practices of web development and optimized for Google PageSpeed.

The template uses a Sass with Sass syntax and project structure with source code in the directory app/ and production folder dist/, that contains ready project with optimized HTML, CSS, JS and images.

How to use OptimizedHTML

1. Download optimizedhtml-start-template from GitHub
2. Install WSL (for Windows): https://webdesign-master.ru/blog/tools/wsl-nodejs-new.html
3. Install Node Modules in project folder: npm i
4. Run the template: gulp

Gulp tasks:

• gulp: run default gulp task (sass, js, watch, browserSync) for web development;
• build: build project to dist folder (cleanup, image optimize, removing unnecessary files);
• deploy: project deployment on the server from dist folder via FTP;
• rsync: project deployment on the server from dist folder via RSYNC;
• clearcache: clear all gulp cache.

Rules for working with the starting HTML template

1. All HTML files should have similar initial content as in app/index.html;
2. For installing new JS library, just run the command "bower i plugin-name" in the terminal. Libraries are automatically placed in the folder app/libs. Bower must be installed in the system (npm i -g bower). Then place all JS libraries paths in the js() task (gulpfile.js);
3. All custom JS located in app/js/common.js;
4. All Sass vars placed in app/sass/_vars.sass;
5. All Fonts placed in app/sass/_fonts.sass with "_mixins/font-face" mixin
6. All Bootstrap media queries placed in app/sass/_media.sass;
7. All JS libraries CSS styles placed in app/sass/_libs.sass;