Clean, opinionated foundation for new projects — to boldly go where no man has gone before.

1. Clone or download and unpack to desired location
2. Download and install latest version of node.js
3. Install grunt-cli globally: npm install -g grunt-cli
4. Install Ruby and it's Sass (3.4.2 or higher) and SCSS-Lint (optional) gems
5. Install GraphicsMagick (recommended) or ImageMagick for your OS. Note: it's mandatory to install one of them before running npm install
6. Get your TinyPNG API key and set it as your environment variable:

• set TINYPNG_API_KEY=YOUR_API_KEY_HERE for Windows
• export TINYPNG_API_KEY=YOUR_API_KEY_HERE for Linux

6. Install project dependencies: npm install
7. Rename Kotsu.sublime-project to project's name
8. Update _settings.*.scss in styles directory to suit your needs
9. Code live with: grunt
10. Build with: grunt build
11. Deploy and enjoy your life

• Reasonable structure for frontend projects
• Grunt with pre-configured tasks
• Nunjucks, a full featured templating engine with static pages generation
• Sass compiler with source maps generation, autoprefixing and linting
• Live reload powered by Browser Sync
• Optional, but mighty, Ekzo.sass framework
• HTML5 boilerplate files based on best practices
• Automatic sprites generation with Spritesmith
• Images compression via TinyPNG
• Responsive images generation with grunt-responsive-images
• Separate, not optimized files in development, and
• Compiled and minified files for production