This is a simple Node.js project that use Gulp for precompile all assets:

• Jade
• SCSS with Autoprefixer
• CoffeeScript
• Generated iconsfont
• Full Bower integration
• Organize folder structure (copying fonts, sounds etc)

• Easy installation and ready to work after 3 commands
• CoffeeScript based Gulpfile
• Useful Gulpfiles structure with tasks, utils etc
• Full bower support (Automatic concat and optimize bower components from bower.js)
• BrowserSync support with *.xip.io external link (no need Chrome extension)

• *nix like OS (Mac OS is recommended)
• Homebrew (Mac OS) or your operating system package manager
• node.js as main engine
• npm as node.js package manager

brew install node

Note: strongly unrecommended to install NPM via Homebrew, because there may be problems with access permissions

curl -L https://npmjs.com/install.sh | sh

npm install -g octavius

octavius

Octavius supports custom tasks. All you need is create octavius folder in your application and add tasks folder inside it. After that you can create your own tasks which extends core Octavius Task Class (or any existed Task). Here is example of simple sounds copy task:

CopyTask = require "#{__base}/core/tasks/copy"

class SoundsTask extends CopyTask
  _paths:
    destination: 'sounds'

module.exports = SoundsTask

After restart Octavius your custom task will be added into Tasks stack.

All bower components automatically concatenates into one file libraries.js. Gulp get main file of each component by its 'main' attribute in bower.json. So if you want automatically attach new component to your project you shoud do it with this command:

bower install backbone --save

Important! Octavius does not find your component without dependency in bower.json. Flag --save means that the information about the component will be included in the main bower.json file.