Boilerplate 2019
(Web Starter Kit from Google updated)

Web Starter Kit from Google is no longer supported

What has changed?

1. Security

node_modules/ scripts vulnerabilities

BEFORE

1.1. Now we are safe!

AFTER

2. New Gulp 4.0.0

faster + easier configuration

task(
    'watch', 
    parallel(
        serve, 
        watchStyles, 
        watchTemplates, 
        watchScripts, 
        watchImages, 
        watchIcons, 
        watchFonts
    )
);
task('serve', series('buildForDev', 'watch'));

3. Webpack

no more javascripts.config.json

3.1. ES6

modern Javascript

3.2. ES6

Transpilation needed. Now with Babel 7.2!

4. Normalize.css

Updated to 8.0.1

5. JS linting on build

gulp!

6. Image Lazy Loading

Responsive Images & Responsive Background Images Lazy loading via Intersection Observer API

7. service-worker.js

8. Gulpfile tidied up

9. HTML_BUILD

Better HTML minification after build.

10. Prefetch

Faster subsequent page-loads by prefetching in-viewport links during idle time

Boilerplate 2019.
Let's code something good!

Boilerplate 2019 (Web Starter Kit from Google updated)