josephj / tinder

A convenient tool which helps me to create prototype rapidly.

Tinder

A convenient tool which helps me to create prototype rapidly.

It's useful when ...

• Your development machine is Mac. (Not tested in other environments)
• Your favorite editor is vim. (Spliting windows)
• You feel comfortable with tmux. (Creating session and launching web server)
• You love to use preprocessor Compass and CoffeeScript. (w/ LiveReload of course!)

Of course you can fork and change to use anything you love.

Why?

As a Front End Developer, I need to make prototypes frequently. You can achieve it by several tools such as codepen or jsfiddle. My personal favor is to develope in CLI. That's the reason I create this CLI tool for myself.

Of course you can achieve similar goal by Yeoman. However, I prefer making it from scratch. :)

Install

Use the install script which simplifies steps.

wget -O - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/josephj/tinder/master/install.sh | sh

It actually runs npm install . -g and move file commands. After executing it, you will get a new global tinder command.

Usage

Step 1. Create a Project

tinder new <folder>

It creates a project folder which has everything you need to create a standalone prototype.

Step 2. Set Environment

NOTE: Change directory to the project folder before executing the following command.

tinder server

It launches standard alone web server in a tmux session which has the identical name with your folder.

Step 3. Update to Gist (Not Ready)

tinder gist