The Brunch repository was officially archived on June 15, 2023, and so too, this little idea for a starter. Thankfully most, if not all, of the goals in this project can be replicated in 11ty or Astro with a much more modern toolset.

Brunchline once intended to be a designer-friendly front-end tooling framework that took away the agony that can be setting and spinning up a development environment. tl;dr You should be designing, not architecting and configuring. I'd even made a rough landing page for it.

NOTE: This project was awaiting features that were slated for 3.0, which never came.

Brunchline is built with Brunch, and prefers utilizing Yarn over NPM.

• SCSS
  • PostCSS
    • autoprefixer
    • cssnano
    • cssnext
    • postcss-utilities
    • postcss-scss
• Pug
• src/ instead of app/
  • assets/[img|vid|svg|*] throws everything straight into dist/[img|vid|svg|*]
    • TODO: Pipe various filetypes through respective optimizers, etc.
• dist/ instead of public/

Project/
├── src/
│   ├── assets/
|   |   └── img/
|   |       └── filename.png
|   ├── js/
|       └── initialize.js
|   ├── scss/
|   |   ├── base.scss             [imports partials defined in each subfolder]
|   |   ├── vendor.scss           [imports vendor CSS, in this case, just normalize.css]
|   |   ├── core/
|   |   ├── components/
|   |   └── pages/
├── dist
│   ├── css/
|       └── app.css               [vendor.scss + base.scss]
|   ├── img/
|       └── filename.png
|   ├── js/
|       └── app.js                [initialize.js + other JS]
|   └── index.html

macOS

• Homebrew: brew install node
• Manually: Download the .pkg

Windows

• Choco: choco install node
• Manually: Download the .msi

Linux

• Linuxbrew: brew install node
• Manually:
  • (If Ubuntu 16.04 or below:) curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_9.x | sudo -E bash -
  • sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
  • sudo apt-get install -y build-essential

macOS

• brew install yarn
• (if using a Node Version Manager) brew install yarn --without-node

Windows

• Download the .msi
• Choco: choco install yarn

Linux (Ubuntu/Debian) (See this page for other distros)

• curl -o- -L https://yarnpkg.com/install.sh | bash /etc/apt/sources.list.d/yarn.list

1. yarn global add brunch — Installs Brunch Globally
2. yarn install — Installs project plugins & dependencies as defined in package.json.

• yarn run start — watches the project with continuous rebuild using brunch-auto-reload. This will also launch HTTP server with pushState.
• yarn run build — builds minified project for production