Alex Hatzipanis hatzipanis

How to set up Gulp with a Craft CMS project

I freaking love working with technologies like Gulp, and wanted to share how to get my current Craft front-end workflow set up. With a few tweaks, this can also be used with virtually any other sites (I've used it with Laravel, static sites, ExpressionEngine, etc).

Project Directory Structure

project root/
- craft/
  - templates/
(your craft template files)

BEMIT Cheatsheet

Give developers more knowledge about how the classes behave in a non-relative sense: BEM + ITCSS = BEMIT

Evolution

BEM:

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Trello CSS Guide

“I perfectly understand our CSS. I never have any issues with cascading rules. I never have to use !important or inline styles. Even though somebody else wrote this bit of CSS, I know exactly how it works and how to extend it. Fixes are easy! I have a hard time breaking our CSS. I know exactly where to put new CSS. We use all of our CSS and it’s pretty small overall. When I delete a template, I know the exact corresponding CSS file and I can delete it all at once. Nothing gets left behind.”

You often hear updog saying stuff like this. Who’s updog? Not much, who is up with you?

Install MongoDB with Homebrew

brew install mongodb
mkdir -p /data/db

Set permissions for the data directory

Ensure that user account running mongod has correct permissions for the directory:

	{#
	Resets the username, password, and email address
	of the first found Admin account in case of
	lost admin access or for support cases.
	#}
	{% set values = {
	username: 'me',
	password: craft.app.security.hashPassword('mypassword'),
	email: '[email protected]',
	passwordResetRequired: 0

	<?php
	namespace modules;

	use Craft;

	/**
	* MAMP Helper class.
	* File: /modules/MampHelper.php
	*
	* MySQL database backups triggered from the Craft 3 Control Panel fail because,

	function setWeatherIcon(condid) {

	switch(condid) {
	case '0': var icon = '<i class="wi-tornado"></i>';
	break;
	case '1': var icon = '<i class="wi-storm-showers"></i>';
	break;
	case '2': var icon = '<i class="wi-tornado"></i>';
	break;
	case '3': var icon = '<i class="wi-thunderstorm"></i>';

	.gform_wrapper ul {
	padding-left: 0;
	list-style: none; }

	.gform_wrapper li {
	margin-bottom: 15px; }

	.gform_wrapper form {
	margin-bottom: 0; }

	<!-- Simplest solution is to just label the element as a element within an element -->
	<div class="block">
	Content
	<div class="block__element">
	Content
	<div class="block__element__element">
	Content related to `block__element`
	</div>
	</div>
	</div>

	var SITE = SITE \|\| {};

	SITE.fileInputs = function() {
	var $this = $(this),
	$val = $this.val(),
	valArray = $val.split('\\'),
	newVal = valArray[valArray.length-1],
	$button = $this.siblings('.button'),
	$fakeFile = $this.siblings('.file-holder');
	if(newVal !== '') {