Based on the default theme for Ghost.
This is a bare-bones starter kit for developing themes for the Ghost blogging platform. It uses some very helpful utilities to make development a joy.
*It's pre-configured to use Bootstrap 3, but you can easily ditch it and use your library of choice.
It uses the same markup as the default theme that ships with Ghost, so it should contain examples of just about everything you can do with the latest Ghost release.
Some very basic styles are applied, and there are a few JavaScript examples.
Babel lets us use ES6 syntax, which is fun.
ES6 syntax is compiled to ES5 using CommonJS modules, which are then Browserified and uglified.
You'll need Node.js and NPM. Homebrew makes it very easy.
brew install node
After that, you'll need a few global Node.js packages for development.
npm install -g gulp
Once you've got Node.js and Gulp installed, you can install the project's dependencies by running
npm install
After the project's dependencies are installed, start developing by running the default Gulp task:
gulp
This will start the JavaScript and LESS watchers and runs additional tasks on file changes. The browser will automatically reload with your latest JavaScript and CSS.
This task will automatically compile JavaScript and LESS files, which are ignored by git. You can now start Ghost and enable this theme to begin working on it.
All Gulp tasks are kept extremely fast by using in-memory file caches to avoid processing unchanged files. This means it uses a bit more memory, but it shouldn't be noticeable.
CTRL + C will stop the task.
A handy Gulp task will create versioned release archives in the dist directory. All development files and folders will be stripped from this archive. JavaScript and CSS will be minified, and images will be compressed.
The archives that are produced can be unzipped and dropped into any Ghost installation's theme directory, then enabled from the blog settings page.
| Build Type | Command |
|---|---|
| Build a patch release, e.g. 0.0.1 | gulp release |
| Build a minor release, e.g. 0.1.0 | gulp release-minor |
| Build a major release, e.g. 1.0.0 | gulp release-major |
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