Hostma comes with power of SCSS. The css files can be generated from scss by simply following below steps:
Gulp is a JavaScipt streaming task runner. It automate many development tasks. Using gulp you can perform tasks like running a local server, minifying code, compilation, Browser sync ,optimizing images, etc... We are using gulp which allows to having complete automation for build flow. You can read it more about it here.
Please follow below steps to install and setup all prerequisites:
Make sure to have the Node.js installed & running in your computer. If you have already installed nodejs on your computer, you can skip this step, otherwise install nodejs on your computer,
Note : If you are using the latest version of Node JS or want to install and use the latest version, click here and install all the dependencies manually that are given below in command prompt.
Make sure to have the Gulp installed &
running in your computer. If you have already installed gulp on your computer, you can skip
this step. In order to install, just run command npm install -g gulp from
your terminal.
After Completion of gulp Install. open gulpfile.js And install the "Declaration of gulp variables" in your command promt. In order to install, just run command npm install gulp, npm install gulp-sass,
npm install gulp-postcss, npm install autoprefixer, npm install gulp-sourcemaps,
npm install browser-sync,
npm install gulp-cssbeautify,
npm install gulp-beautify from your terminal.
Make sure to have all above prerequisites installed & running in your computer. If you want to install more variables for your template, just declare the variables in gulpfile.js after that run in command promt
To setup, follow below mentioned steps:
Make sure to have all above prerequisites installed & running in your computer
Open your terminal, go to your folder and enter the command npm install. This
would install all required dependencies in node_modules folder.
After you finished with the above steps, you can run the following commands into the terminal/command prompt from the root directory ( Hostma/HTML ) of the project to run the project locally or build for production use:
gulp
Note:- please ensure that you have installed all nodemodules requried to run gulp tasks .
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gulp
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Gulp command is used to generate dist/ directory.
Gulp runs the project locally, starts the development server and watches for any changes you made in src folder, including your HTML, Javascript, SCSS, etc. The development server is accessible at http://localhost:3000.
What ever changes you made in src folder it automatically changed in dist files.
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