caoyu0 / kickoff

A lightweight front-end framework for creating scalable, responsive sites

Kickoff

A lightweight front-end framework for creating scalable and performant, responsive sites

Developed and maintained by Ashley Nolan & Zander Martineau

Features

• Mobile-first, responsive philosophy
• Rock-solid CSS framework using Sass (.scss) preprocessor
• Starter content styles: typography, grids & components
• Starter form element styles (see demo): stacked on small-screen to 2-column (if you choose) at the breakpoint of your choice, validation states
• Lots of helper classes & Sass mixins for many CSS3 features like media-queries
• Simple Javascript boilerplate that makes very little assumptions about your chosen style or workflow.
• The default method uses a list of files that are concatinated & compressed with Uglify
• If you prefer something more advanced, our Yeoman generator allows you to use Browserify instead :)
• Grunt used extensively to ease common development bottlenecks
• Sass compilation using libsass (using grunt-sass) and uses autoprefixer to dynamically add vendor prefixes so you don't even have to think about them :)
• Concatenation and minification of JS files
• Simple server using BrowserSync
• SVG Icon generation using grunticon

Demos and documentation

Kickoff's demo and documentation site is hosted at trykickoff.com.

Yeoman generator

There is also a Yeoman generator for Kickoff, visit trykickoff.com/docs/yeoman.html for more info.

Bugs and feature requests

Have a bug or a feature request? Please search for existing and closed issues. If your problem or idea is not addressed yet, please open a new issue.

Browser compatibility

Kickoff has been tested in the following browsers:

• Chrome
• Safari
• Firefox 3+
• Opera 10+
• Internet Explorer 8+ (an extra CSS file is generated if you need IE8 support)

If you're using Kickoff we'd love to hear about it; please e-mail us at [email protected]

Creators

Zander Martineau

• http://twitter.com/mrmartineau
• http://github.com/mrmartineau

Ashley Nolan

• http://twitter.com/AshNolan_
• http://github.com/ashleynolan

Community

Keep track of development and community news by following @TryKickoff on Twitter.

Versioning

For transparency into our release cycle and in striving to maintain backward compatibility, Kickoff is maintained under the Semantic Versioning guidelines. Sometimes we screw up, but we'll adhere to those rules whenever possible.

Contributing

1. Fork it!
2. Create your feature branch: git checkout -b my-new-feature
3. Commit your changes: git commit -m 'Add some feature'
4. Push to the branch: git push origin my-new-feature
5. Submit a pull request