BL4NK Bootstrap Edition

Light, powerful and free template for Joomla!™ for faster and easier web development.

Install

Install it like a normal template in Joomla!™ backend. Then install Node.js®. This template will be built with Gulp. If you haven't used Gulp before, you need to install gulp global.

npm install gulp-cli -g

Open a terminal and go to the template folder.

cd C:\xampp\htdocs\joomla\templates\frontend

Install Node.js® dependencies.

npm install

Open gulpfile.js and take a look at the serve function. The url should be match with your local Joomla!™ installation, e.g.

http://localhost/blank/

Run Gulp for build and minify.

gulp

The building files are stored in folder /build in template directory and a zip package will be created one directory above, the level of the template folders. See gulpfile.js to recognize automation.

Working files

• index.php
• js/script.js
• scss/_custom.scss

Functions

• Develop with bootstrap for responsive web design
• Scalable and customizable vector icons
• Customizable error, offline and print page

Addons

• Bootstrap
• Font Awesome

Tutorial

There is a Bootstrap tutorial for beginners and new Joomla!™ developers.

Update

To keep your packages up to date install npm-check-updates.

npm install -g npm-check-updates

Identify out of date packages and update all the versions in your package.json.

ncu -u

Install the new versions of your packages based on the updated package.json.

npm update

Licence

The BL4NK Template is opensource software released under the GPL.

BL4NK

Take a look at BL4NK (without Bootstrap) and the full documentation of it.