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Html5 boilerplate

A professional front-end template for building fast, robust, and adaptable web apps or sites.

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HTML5 Boilerplate is a professional front-end template for building fast, robust, and adaptable web apps or sites. The project is written primarily in JavaScript, distributed under the MIT License license, first published in 2010. It has gained significant community traction with 57,465 stars and 12,295 forks on GitHub. Key topics include: best-practices, css, html, html5, html5-boilerplate.

Latest release: v9.0.1Release v9.0.1
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HTML5 Boilerplate

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HTML5 Boilerplate is a professional front-end template for building
fast, robust, and adaptable web apps or sites.

This project is the product of over 10 years of iterative development and
community knowledge. It does not impose a specific development
philosophy or framework, so you're free to architect your code in the
way that you want.

About This Repository

This repository is where HTML5-Boilerplate is authored. Some of the tools,
files and processes that you see here are solely for the production of
HTML5 Boilerplate and are not part of HTML5 Boilerplate. For one example, the
gulpfile.mjs
script is used to build the project. It's not part of the project itself.

The project we publish is represented by the contents of the /dist/
folder. Everything else in this repository is used to author the project.

Think of it this way, in the same way that you don't clone vuejs/core
to create a Vue.js app, you don't need to clone this repository to start a new
site or app based on HTML5 Boilerplate.

So, if you're looking for a quick start template to build a website or
application, look at the options in the
Quick Start section of this document.

If you want to help us improve HTML5 Boilerplate then you can start with the documentation here, which includes steps to clone this repo in order to get it set up for development.

Quick Start

Choose one of the following options:

  • Using the create-html5-boilerplate
    script, instantly fetch the latest npm published package (or any version
    available on npm) with npx, npm init or yarn create without having to
    install any dependencies. Running the following npx command installs the
    latest version into a folder called new-site

    bash
    npx create-html5-boilerplate new-site cd new-site npm install npm run start
  • Using our new Template Repository
    create a new GitHub repository based on the latest code from the main branch of HTML5
    Boilerplate.

  • Install with npm: npm install html5-boilerplate
    or yarn: yarn add html5-boilerplate. The resulting
    node_modules/html5-boilerplate/dist folder represents the latest version of
    the project for end users. Depending on what you want to use and how you want
    to use it, you may have to copy and paste the contents of that folder into
    your project directory.

  • Download the latest stable release from
    here. This zip file is a
    snapshot of the dist folder. On Windows, Mac and from the file manager on
    Linux unzipping this folder will output to a folder named something like
    html5-boilerplate_v9.0.0. From the command-line, you will need to create a
    folder and unzip the contents into that folder.

    bash
    mkdir html5-boilerplate unzip html5-boilerplate*.zip -d html5-boilerplate

Features

  • A finely-tuned starter template: Reap the benefits of 10 years of analysis,
    research and experimentation by over 200 contributors.
  • Designed with progressive enhancement in mind.
  • Includes:
    • Placeholder Open Graph elements and attributes.
    • An example package.json file with WebPack commands
      built in to jumpstart application development.
    • Placeholder CSS Media Queries.
    • Useful CSS helper classes.
    • Default print styles, performance optimized.
    • "Delete-key friendly." Easy to strip out parts you don't need.
    • Extensive documentation.

Browser Support

HTML5-Boilerplate supports the latest, stable releases of all major browsers.

Check the default configuration from Browserslist
for more details on browsers and versions covered.

Documentation

Take a look at the documentation table of contents. This
documentation is bundled with the project which makes it available for offline
reading and provides a useful starting point for any documentation you want to
write about your project.

Contributing

Hundreds of developers have helped to make the HTML5 Boilerplate. Anyone is
welcome to contribute. However, if you decide to get
involved, please take a moment to review the guidelines:

License

The code is available under the MIT license.

Contributors

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