Mega Boilerplate

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love the idea, love the excution, hate the name. seriously is there something more generic than "Mega Boilerplate"? but obviously thats a tiny, minor complaint. please continue to make this project awesome!

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10yr ago

Mega Boilerplate

Maker

@gopietz Thanks for your kind words. I have enjoyed working on this project and will continue to do so, as it allows me to play around with different tools and technologies. For example, I don't know anything about Angular 2, TypeScript, Meteor, Electron yet (currently on the roadmap), so in a way Mega Boilerplate is an opportunity to learn these new tools! :) The name, despite sounding very boring and generic, is actually well thought-out. Besides the availability of megaboilerplate.com domain, there weren't any relevant Google search results for this name, but now the entire first page is all about this particular project: https://www.google.com/#q=mega+b...

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10yr ago

@evnowandforever good thinking. im especially waiting for the electron boilerplate and how you might allow me to tweak it. photonkit.com might come in very handy for that one :)

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10yr ago

Mega Boilerplate

Maker

@gopietz I am excited for Electron boilerplate as well. It will be based on the existing boilerplate (https://github.com/chentsulin/el...) but slightly simplified, with custom UI, and several checkbox options, and perhaps a simple email-based authentication. I was blown away when I saw that I could build desktop apps with Hot Reload - a single change to CSS or React components and you can immediately see the results! In fact, my next two side-project apps will be built using Electron. 👍

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10yr ago

@evnowandforever i just noticed that the static site boilerplate doesnt come with an option to add a css framework like you offer for node.js. you might want to add that.

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10yr ago

Mega Boilerplate

Maker

@gopietz I was planning to add CSS framework and a few other choices from Node.js, but decided to keep it real simple to gauge the interest for those static site generators, to see if it was a good time investment. As of 6/9/2016, the ratio between node.js and static site generator downloads is Node.js 7,279 (44.21%) vs Static Site 4,973 (30.21%). Between Jekyll and Middleman it it's Jekyll 2,386 vs Middleman 1,945.

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10yr ago

Vinyl

Hey Sahat, just built a boiler plate ... the options were very impressive! I'm curious how you're generating all these super specific scenarios?

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10yr ago

Mega Boilerplate

Maker

@noahtovares This project consists of hundreds of micro modules (files) that are composed on the fly. I start with a base file, e.g. server.js, which contains a bunch of comment strings that are removed or replaced based on user's choices. The idea is really simple, it's just very time consuming, hence it took so long to build this project.

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10yr ago

Metric

Awesome! How are you going to handle contributions? Since this is open I can see this growing very fast, but on the other hand, I think you want to keep the generator streamlined and prevent it from being cluttered. Thoughts?

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10yr ago

Mega Boilerplate

Maker

@ironxcross That was my main concern with Hackathon Starter, but with Mega Boilerplate project not so much. If someone proposes a new "feature X" to the React generator, it could simply be optional, similar to how you check Socket.IO and PM2 checkboxes under Express radio button. Generator code will certainly increase in code and complexity over time, but the output should not, and I will actively try to streamline it to make generated code simple and clean.

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10yr ago

GrowSurf

Holy shit, this is amazing! Really good job on this Going to explore the docs more but so far looks like this will replace yeoman

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10yr ago

Mega Boilerplate

Maker

@kevinyun Thanks! Please let me know if you have any suggestions for the README. It is still very much work in progress.

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10yr ago

Awesome tool! I would like to see Stylus and Webpack support. Also auto generated docker configs would be great too!

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10yr ago

Mega Boilerplate

Maker

@muratcorlu Thank you! 🙌 Adding Stylus support for "None" CSS framework choice should be really simple. For Bootstrap and Foundation, I don't know how that would work or if it's a good idea to mix Sass/Less with Stylus.

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10yr ago

@evnowandforever good point. I use https://github.com/maxmx/bootstr... for my bootstrap projects. But a stylus option with only "none css" support, will also work for many stylus users I think.

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10yr ago

Mega Boilerplate

Maker

@muratcorlu Mega Boilerplate now supports Stylus.

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10yr ago

This looks like amazing work. Very much looking forward to seeing the Angular 2 version. Will it include support for angular universal / server side rendering? (Also it looks like your asure demos are offline)

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10yr ago

Mega Boilerplate

Maker

Hey all, I am super excited to share with you this project that I have been working on for over 7 months now (my biggest one yet). The idea behind it came from one of my earlier side-projects called "Hackathon Starter", but unlike it, you are free to customize any part of your stack. Please feel free to ask me any questions you may have about the website or the boilerplate code! Also feel free to reach out to me by email at sahat@me.com.

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10yr ago

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