A light, super fast, and intuitive static build system made for front end development and building web apps.
Make sure you have node.js installed, then just run npm install roots -g and you'll be all set.
- If you encounter problems when installing. Please ensure Xcode and Xcode Command Line Tools are Installed.
- From Xcode go to Preferences -> Download -> Command Line Tools -> Install to install command line tools.
Once you have roots installed, you can use the command line to wrangle your project. You must be at least somewhat familiar with the command line to be able to use roots. All the possible commands and options are explained clearly on the man page.
All roots tutorials and resources that are recommended by the core team are listed below:
- official roots tutorials - walkthroughs of roots' major functionality
- official roots documentation - documentation for major roots features and functionality
All documentation can be found on http://roots.cx.
If you are looking for roots docs, see http://roots.cx/docs.
If you are after the docs for the css library, axis, see http://roots.cx/axis.
If you are confused and/or having trouble, one of the solutions below will almost certainly get you back on your feet:
- Consult the docs
- File an issue
- Ask us in the official IRC channel on freenode, #roots-dev
- Tweet at me, and we'll work it out
See the issues for discussion of upcoming features and additions. Roots is very actively developed and is moving forward at a rapid pace. Our goal is to push static sites and "single page apps" as far as they can possibly go, and we're well on the way.
I would love to have more contributors, and if you've helped out, you are awesome. I want to give a huge thanks especially to these people:
We are very open to new people getting involved and contributing. Come chat with us on IRC at freenode/#roots-dev if this seems like your kind of jam.
To keep a consistant coding style in the project, we're going with Felix's Node.js Style Guide for JS and Polar Mobile's guide for CoffeeScript, but it should be noted that much of this project uses under_scores rather than camelCase for naming. Both of these are pretty standard guides. For documenting in the code, we're using JSDoc.
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