Slimstart

Publicerad av Mattias Hising

Slimstart is a setup for getting up to speed with your PHP5+ web quickly. It is based on:

Clone or download on Github.

• Slim Framework (Sinatra-like lightweight PHP framework)
• Mustache (Logicless templating for PHP and JS)
• Layout based on HTML5 Boilerplate
• Compass + SASS for cleaner and more maintainable CSS
• Twitter Bootstrap (Sass-version)
• CoffeeScript for cleaner and more maintainable JavaScript code
• Modernizr for IE HTML5 element support and HTML5 feature detection
• jQuery for easier DOM-manipulation and plugin ease
• CSS Reset for resetting the browser design quirks
• Mustache.js for client side rendering

Sass: (Need to have SASS and Compass installed)

$ gem update —system
$ gem install compass

CoffeeScript (Need Node.js and Node Package Manager (npm))

$ npm install -g coffee-script

Run environment (Requires tmux):

$ cd {project_home}
$ ./ridge start

Everything should work from start (if you are using nginx you have to modify the nginx.conf file according to your local setup), go to

http://slimstart.dev/hello/

and you should see “Hello world”

Go to

http://slimstart.dev/hello/ridgestreet

and you should see “Hello ridgestreet”

Whats next?

• Next is MySQL and MongoDB-support
• Automatic REST-API:s for Models
• JSON.js for client side rendering and POSTs
• History.js for HTML5 pushState support and client side rendering
• *.json to serve content as application/json
• ?callback=func to support JSONP out-of-the-box
• Decide whether or not a template should be exported to client
• Filter what items should be visible when client-rendering
• Static file concatenation, compression and optimization
• Yslow and Page Speed configurations set in .htaccess and nginx.conf
• Support for navigation configuration
• Support for more server side solutions, Flask (Python), Sinatra (Ruby) and ?

Wanna see something else? Clone Slimstart on Github and implement it, send a pull reqeust or send me an email on info@ridgestreet.se to start the conversation.