README

A very much opinionated SilverStripe project boilerplate/skeleton with nifty tools, tips and tricks.

Requirements

• SilverStripe 3
• NodeJS
• GruntJS
• Bower

TL;DR

This project replaces the default mysite and themes folders that comes with any SilverStipe install. And replaces those with a tightly packed project directory easy to manage and ship.

In details

Once you have SilverStripe up and running, save your important _config.php settings and get rid of the mysite folder. Rename the ss-project-boilerplate folder to something that makes sense for you and update the _config.php.

There are comments in most of the files included, so read on to learn more about each specific lines. This module will impose the following project structure:

Front-end dependencies

All front-end dependencies (CSS + JS) are managed via Bower, edit the bower.json to suite your needs then run bower update. These will automatically be injected later on in the SileverStripe templates (Page.ss + js.ss).

Developing and publishing your project

We'll be using GruntJS to automate the development and publishing process, so make sure to first have the NodeJS packages dependencies installed by runnning npm update.

Once that's done, run grunt dev and start coding. This will inject Bower JS/CSS/SCSS dependencies for you, create a customized Modernizr and watch and compile your SASS for you.

Once you are done and ready to publish your project, run grunt dist and an optimized copy of all your project files will be in the _dist directory ready to upload. Config will be updated to live, CSS/JS concatenated and minified, and all you templates minified too.

Dev/Live configurations

The grunt dist task will autiomatically replace references of environment_type: 'dev' to live in your config.yml.

For PHP files (this applies to all PHP files in your project directory), you can use fenced code blocks to specify code that is to be removed or enabled in the distribution version (see _config.php for an example):

• use /*::config:dev*/ ... /*::config*/ to mark blocks of codes to be removed
• use /*::config:live ... ::config*/ to mark blocks of codes to be enabled

License (BSD Simplified)

Copyright (c) 2013, Thierry Francois (colymba)

All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

• Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
• Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
• Neither the name of Thierry Francois, colymba nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

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