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In order to use Gulp, you will need to download Node. If Node is already installed in your system, please make sure the installed version is the stable version of Node - LTS.
Open your terminal and download Gulp Command Line Interface to be able to use gulp in your terminal.
Open your terminal to the root directory of your unzipped theme and run to install all of theme's dependencies.
Open your terminal to the root directory of the theme to use the following commands:
Compile and watch the SCSS/JS/HTML, use Live Reload to update browsers instantly, start a server, and pop a tab in your default browser. Any changes made to the source files will be compiled as soon as you save the file.
Hit Ctrl+C or just close the command line window to stop the server.
Generates a dist directory with all the production files.
The gulp-file-include package is used to make global changes in HTML files easier.
Easily create new .html partials inside the /partials folder and point to them from any file by specifying the path to the partial file and using the @@include keyword.
Please read the official package documentation for more info.
There are 2 basic ways to customize your theme:
gulp compilation steps outlined above. The 2 major benefits of this strategy are using variable overrides to easily customize theme styles, plus you never have to touch Bootstrap or template's source, meaning future updates will be much, much, simpler. There are 3 provided files that make this strategy simple to implement:
user-variables.scss or user-variables.dark.scss: This files can be used to override Bootstrap core and the template variables for customizing elements that have been tied to variables.
user.scss: This file can be used for writing custom SCSS that will be compiled alongside Bootstrap and template's core files.
template.css, template.dark.css or template.min.css, template.dark.min.css file in the dist/assets/css directory.