Middleman-neato

A nice project template for Middleman, the fantastic static site building tool.

Features

Neato sets you up with the following, straight out of the box:

• Slim templating
• Sass support with Bourbon & Neat
• A basic page layout & 404 page based on HTML5 Boilerplate (in Slim)
• Blogging support with feeds (easily disabled where not required)
• Syntax highlighting via middleman-syntax, with an easy theme toggle
• Simple Google Analytics support
• Livereload
• CSS & Javascript minification, image optimisation and gzipping on build
• Optional IE8 support setting which loads appropriate normalize.css & jQuery versions
• …and probably some other stuff.

Thanks to the brilliance of Middleman, this should get you up and running on new projects pretty darn fast.

Use

Install Middleman:

gem install middleman

Clone Neato:

git clone [email protected]:shkm/middleman-neato.git my-project

Install gems and get to work!

cd my-project
bundle install
middleman

Template Install

If you find yourself using Neato often, you can install it as a middleman template:

git clone [email protected]:shkm/middleman-neato.git ~/.middleman/neato

Now you can simply init new projects with the Neato template:

middleman init -T=neato my-project

Just don't forget to update ~/.middleman/neato every now and then.

Copyright and licence

Copyright 2013 Jamie Schembri, under the MIT licence.