Slender (middle)Man

Who's the tall guy behind you?

A simple template for Middleman opinionated towards simplicity and cleanness. Useful when prototyping (responsive) web pages.

Features

Prepreocessing

• Slim [for html]
• SASS [for css]
• CoffeeScript (jQuery ready) [for js]

Tools

• LiveReload
• Bower support [package management for the web]
• Compass or Bourbon (with Neat) [sass helpers/mixins] + lightweight semantic grid
• GitHub Pages [deployment/hosting]
• Autoprefixer [add vendor prefixes]

Components

• HTML5 Boilerplate 4.3.0

Via Bower

• Modernizr 2.6.2
• Typeplate 1.1.2
• PureCSS 0.3.0
  • Normalize.css 1.1.2

How to?

Install

git clone --depth=1 git://github.com/PaBLoX-CL/slender-man.git ~/.middleman/slender-man
rm -rf ~/.middleman/slender-man/.git # in the likely case you want to remove the history

Use it with MiddleMan

middleman init my-new-project --template=slender-man
cd my-new-project
bundle install
bower install

Deploy to GitHub Pages (optional)

rake publish

More info on the middleman-gh-pages repo.

Rationale

I have made this template as simple as possible to rather use it as a sort of "starting" point, more than a full solution. That's why I made it delete-friendly and tried to assume the least possible.

Credits

• polymatt: slimmer MiddleMan Template
• shkm: neato MiddleMan Template
• polleverywhere: bower support
• neo: deployment method
• porada: autoprefixer

Copyright

Copyright (c) 2013-2014 Pablo Olmos de Aguilera Corradini. MIT licensed.

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.