A lightweight & fast frontend website build tool.

Built on the middleman framework. Includes a bunch of modern frontend tools.

1. Install

• Xcode CLI Tools: xcode-select --install
• gem install middleman

2. Create your site with dev server

• Run middleman init project-name (project-name is folder name)
• Navigate to project-name
• Start up dev server: middleman server
• Now you can make changes and build the site

3. Build to production

• When ready run middleman build
• Project files to be used are located in /build folder

4. Deploy with NOW

• Ensure you have NodeJS installed: here
• Run: npm install -g now
• Navigate to build folder: cd build
• Run now (verify email address on first time)
• Your website will now be live at the URL given

You can also use the files in /build on your own server

• Middleman: Static site generator
• Bootstrap 4: UI toolkit
• jQuery: JS functionality

• ERB templates
• Components (partials)
• ES6 + polyfill support
• Live reloading
• Minified, fast production build
• SEO optimized
• Sitemap generated with production build
• Single build command will properly build all files
• No server config/routing needed
• Easily deploy to Now, Netlify or other one click systems

• Default <meta> tag properties are located in /data/meta.yml
• If specified in template some of these values will be ignored

• Default code for analytics is located in /javascripts/analytics.js

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