Scully VS html5-boilerplate

In recent years, projects like Vercel's NextJS and Gatsby have garnered acclaim and higher and higher usage numbers. Not only that, but their core concepts of Server Side Rendering (SSR) and Static Site Generation (SSG) have been seen in other projects and frameworks such as Angular Universal, ScullyIO, and NuxtJS. Why is that? What is SSR and SSG? How can I use these concepts in my applications?

I just spent like 4 hours trying to resolve some dependencies in my angular project so I can install skully - a static site generator in my angular project. And I am exhausted.

There are several solutions to get around the routing issue. One is to use MPA's (multi page applications). Both Angular (Angular Universal, Scully, and more recently released Analog) and React (NextJs and Remix) have meta-frameworks that provide a server side rendered solution.

Unfortunately, there are no options that I know of. There is a new meta-framework for Angular called Analog but it is not yet ready for SSR. If you need SSG, there is Scully. Other than that, you will have to wait for the Angular Team to fix their Universal project or switch to one of the meta-frameworks :)

Make sure to checkout the Scully Docs.

As for Angular, there's the official @angular/universal package, but I wasn't a fan of it the last time I used it. I've used Scully before and it worked great, plus it requires no changes to your code, unlike Universal.

Scully, static site generation

Take a look at Scully. It’s a static site generator for Angular apps.

Maybe take a look at this: https://scully.io/

Download the HTML5 Boilerplate template from the official website (https://html5boilerplate.com/). You can choose to download the standard or the enhanced version, depending on your needs.

The ol' HTML5 boilerplate project does favicons in three lines:

Also https://html5boilerplate.com might be good starting point.

Learn to a medium degree of proficiency HTML and CSS. Dig through something like the source code for https://html5boilerplate.com/ and try to understand why they're doing the things that they're doing. Learn Git and use it in practice. Even if you're just working on your own code.

Do you guys still use HTML5 Boilerplate when starting new projects? https://html5boilerplate.com/

2. Html Boilerplate

Wasn't this moved into Modernizr? There's a library I haven't thought of in a long time.

Oh, yep. There it is at the bottom:

> April 2011: IEPP v2 comes out. Modernizr and the html5shiv inherit the latest code. Meanwhile developers everywhere continue to use HTML5 elements in a cross-browser fashion without worry.

Paul Irish also started (or helped start) the html5 boilerplate project[1], which I am surprised to see is still actively being developed. I relied on that boilerplate for so many of my years of my early career (started full-time front-end in 2011). If you want another blast of nostalgia, check out the earlier releases[2,3] of it. I'm so happy I don't have to use conditional IE statements in my html anymore

1. https://html5boilerplate.com/

2. https://github.com/h5bp/html5-boilerplate/tree/v0.9

3. https://github.com/h5bp/html5-boilerplate/tree/v0.9.5

To get started with templates. https://html5boilerplate.com/