JavaScript VanillaJS Template

starting point for experiments with plain JavaScript and CSS

Dependencies

• Only a web browser like Firefox or Chrome is needed to run the program.
• Optionally, if Node.js is installed on the development computer, the NPM package alive-server can be used for automatic page reloads after source code changes.

Create new project

To create a new project from this template, download the project files from here or run the following Bash snippet:

SLUG=javascript-sandbox-$(date +%s)
{
git clone [email protected]:experimental-software/javascript-vanillajs-template.git $SLUG
cd $SLUG
}

Development

npm install -g alive-server
alive-server --no-browser

Then open http://127.0.0.1:8080 in a web browser.

Prettier

To enable prettier in IntelliJ IDEA:

npm install --save-dev prettier

Also see

• https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/prettier.html

References

• http://vanilla-js.com/
• https://github.com/ljcp/alive-server