phawk/backbone-stack

Removing the boilerplate from starting single page apps.

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backbone-stack's Issues

Move to foundation 4 and sass

Foundation with the mobile first approach just seems a little more production ready than bootstrap.

node version assets not deleting old assets

allow is helper to support OR type checks

e.g.

is(object, "array|object");

Using Require.JS during development

Hi Pete,

great Backbone-Stack - I think about to use this for my next project.

One question - Should it be possible, too use require.js during development and don´t use the "build-version"?

Another question is a little bit further on. I will build a application that contains out of different areas (public, user, admin), that will share different views/models/controllers, but have although some views/models/controllers, that are only necessary for the special groups - so i was thinking about to have four moduls of my application (common, public, user, admin) of my application and load this stuff on demand. I was a little bit afraid to put all stuff in one complied file in production, because maybe some stuff (e.g special graphic-js-libs) are only necessary for a admin. Any idea on this topic?

Thanks,
Thomas

CSS/LESS compile task

First of all, excellent repo you have here. Very, very useful and it helped me a lot to better understand how all of these things integrate.

I've noticed that you have a layout.css in the assets folder. Did you compile that "externally"?

I think an improvement would be to compile, concat and minify all the CSS/LESS files.

Right now there is no way we can add our own styles to the pipeline, right?
We must add them separately, and they will not be minified.

Also, using bootstrap from bower instead of a local, unmanaged copy could be useful.

Hanlebars not loading through AMD

Handlebars have changed how they define their library, and to use requirejs shim, it no longer supports being wrapped or uglify2 compression.

Dependencies with a ~ have screwed this up here as they are pulling in slightly different versions, and although the handlebars change wasn't an API change, it does screw things up for us AMD folk.