moz-morris/slim-skeleton

A Slim Framework skeleton using Twig & Sass

My Slim Skeleton App

This is my somewhat opinionated Slim skeleton app. It uses my own fork of the Slim framework, Twig for templating and Sass for stylesheets., _(*1)

Installation

Assuming you've got Composer installed..., _(*2)

composer create-project moz-morris/slim-skeleton [app-name]

...replacing [app-name] with directory where the app will be generated. You can set your document root to that folder. Keep reading more some further explanation., _(*3)

Slim & Rewrites

The fork of Slim this app implements allows you to use rewrites to route requests to a subfolder whilst maintaining URLs that don't include the subfolder name. This method is supported by all of the other frameworks I've used. A little surprising then that Slim doesn't support this particular structure., _(*4)

The app is set up so that you can point Apache at the root folder and with some .htaccess rewrites, all requests will be sent to the /public/ folder. I like this. It's useful when you're deploying to an environment where the document root can't be changed or perhaps you're looking to keep your web root as tidy as possible., _(*5)

Twig

I like the Django template language and Twig is really similar. So, Twig templates it is. There's some config happening in public/index.php and the cached templates are written to app/tmp. You'll need to chmod that folder., _(*6)

Sass

Sass is awesome. It's even better with Compass. There's a config.rb inside of the public/sass folder so it's ready and waiting for the compass watch command., _(*7)