A lightweight front-end framework for creating scalable and performant, responsive sites
Developed and maintained by Ashley Nolan & Zander Martineau
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| ⏩ | #webperf | Performance-first, responsive philosophy |
| 🚍 | Rock-solid build tasks | We use gulp to deliver the best task runner and developer experience for your project |
| 🎨 | CSS | gulp css - Sass (Libsass via node-sass), Postcss with Autoprefixer, CSSNano and more, Source Maps |
| 🐘 | Javascript | gulp javascript - Babel, Webpack |
| 🎡 | Images | gulp images - Compression with imagemin |
| 🐟 | Icons | gulp icons - Auto-generated SVG Sprites |
| 🚧 | Compile | gulp compile - Compile all the things |
| 👀 | Watch | gulp watch - Watch all the things |
| 🔥 | Live updating | gulp serve - Browsersync, Webpack Dev Middleware, Webpack Hot Middleware |
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| Production builds | RELEASE=true gulp compile - Set the RELEASE environment flag to true to compress everything. This works on individual tasks as well e.g. RELEASE=true gulp javascript |
Kickoff's demo and documentation site is hosted at trykickoff.com.
Our Yeoman Generator is the best way to get Kickoff each time you want to start a new project, visit trykickoff.com/docs/yeoman.html for more info.
Have a bug or a feature request? Please search for existing and closed issues. If your problem or idea is not addressed yet, please open a new issue.
Kickoff has been tested in the following browsers:
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| Zander Martineau | Ashley Nolan | Nic Bell |
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| Github | Github | Github |
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If you're using Kickoff we'd love to hear about it; please e-mail us at trykickoff@gmail.com
Keep track of development and community news by following @TryKickoff on Twitter.
Please read our contribution guidelines before contributing to Kickoff.
For transparency into our release cycle and in striving to maintain backward compatibility, Kickoff is maintained under the Semantic Versioning guidelines. Sometimes we screw up, but we'll adhere to those rules whenever possible.
Kickoff was created by Ash and Zander while working at TMW. TMW continue to provide sponsorship for the development of the project as well as trykickoff.com domain renewals and stickers.