Newton Theme

The Newton Theme is for Grav CMS. It's a very simple boilerplate for developers that want to start from scratch with basic modern tools:

1. webpack with webpack-dev-server to hot reload changes in styles.
2. eslint with airbnb-base configuration to lint JS code and babel to parse modern ES6 to be compatible with latest browsers.
3. special partial in twig templates - icons.html.twig to store inline svg icons instead of font icons. You can prepare collections of those svgs with tools like icomoon.io.
4. Autoprefixer for styles.
5. no jQuery dependency - many great plugins use ES6 now and I dropped another layer of abstraction to focus on vanilla JS, but feel free to add it in templates/partials/base.html.twig if you need it!

Nothing fancy was made with templates or php files, so feel free to replace them with, for example, quark theme files and tweak them accordingly.

Setup

This theme only needs PHP 7.x.x (with modules that grav will notify you about during installation) and npm in order to work, thanks to built-in PHP Webserver

Unpack theme to /user/themes directory of your Grav installation and run npm install. Then run npm run dev to init webpack dev server that will watch for changes in your scss/js and hot reload the first one after edit.

This is a work in progress!

I created minimum of minimums to make hot reloading of styles possible and keep things small. I'm aware that it's not complete setup and things like handy production builds, minimizing images, choosing modern and minimal css framework etc. should be added to this project.