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thoughtbot / middleman-template

The base Middleman application used at thoughtbot, ready to deploy to Netlify.
https://thoughtbot.com
MIT License
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Add usage notes to README #26

Closed creuter closed 6 years ago

tysongach commented 6 years ago

Does running middleman init MY_PROJECT_FOLDER -T thoughtbot/middleman-template work for you? I get an error when I try it.

If I remember correctly, Middleman templates require an explicit structure, with a root template/ directory. That didn't jive with Netlify's one-click deploy button, so we had to choose one way or the other. Not sure which is best.

creuter commented 6 years ago

I thought I could, but missed the T flag. I'm now having dependency trouble which I'm trying to resolve. Will report back.

creuter commented 6 years ago

I'm going to close this, since I'm still getting rb-fsevent dependency errors that I can't resolve.

tysongach commented 6 years ago

After digging into this, I think the errors we were seeing were just temporary dependency issues.

Running middleman init PROJECT_NAME --template=thoughtbot/middleman-template works for me, now.

I've opened https://github.com/thoughtbot/middleman-template/pull/34 which swaps the Netlify button for the Middleman CLI.

In the future, I'd like to investigate using Netlify's CLI to spin up a new site instance after generating the template.