[Start Boilerplate]

Quick start

You don't need nothing to install this boilerplate. It is a package using Jquery, Backbone and Require.js

Also others libraries and plugins like:

• Twitter Bootstrap (http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/)
• HTML5 Boilerplate (http://html5boilerplate.com/)
• Jade engine template (http://jade-lang.com/)
• Lodash (http://lodash.com/)
• Amplify (for LocalStorage: https://github.com/dev360/Backbone.amplify)
• Highcharts (not used, but added to require. More info: (http://www.highcharts.com/)
• Datatable (Sort tables: http://www.datatables.net/) Prepare for multilanguage support and it's using the event aggregator pattern for views comunication (see mediator) More info: (http://lostechies.com/derickbailey/2012/04/03/revisiting-the-backbone-event-aggregator-lessons-learned/)

Features

• Local Storage as a Data Base.
• HTML5 ready. Use the new elements with confidence.
• Cross-browser compatible (Chrome, Opera, Safari, Firefox 3.6+, IE6+).
• Designed with progressive enhancement in mind.
• Includes Normalize.css for CSS normalizations and common bug fixes.
• The latest jQuery via CDN, with a local fallback.
• The latest Modernizr build for feature detection.
• IE-specific classes for easier cross-browser control.
• Placeholder CSS Media Queries.
• Useful CSS helpers.
• Default print CSS, performance optimized.
• Protection against any stray console.log causing JavaScript errors in IE6/7.
• An optimized Google Analytics snippet.
• Apache server caching, compression, and other configuration defaults for Grade-A performance.
• Cross-domain Ajax and Flash.
• "Delete-key friendly." Easy to strip out parts you don't need.
• Extensive inline and accompanying documentation.

Contributing

Anyone and everyone is welcome to [contribute]