Theme Development Best Practices

[kclarkson]

Hi Everyone,

Found Cecil after googling TWIG Static site generators. I used to use Sculpin but the development and support seems to be lacking a little bit.

One thing that I am not quite sure about is Theme best practices when it comes to customization.

For example, I just downloaded the comingsoon bootstrap theme.

What I am unclear about is where would I add new partials for styling seeming the theme files are ignored by the repo?

Right now my build step fails because there doesn't seem to be an output file.

[ArnaudLigny]

Hello @kclarkson,

Thanks for testing Cecil :-)

First, remember Coming Soon is landing page theme, dedicated to show a waiting message and a Netlify contact form.

Second, Coming Soon is powered by Bootstrap and it must be installed.

So, the error message (not very explicit indeed...) tell us that the assets.compile.style configuration is not set. This should not be the case because this value is provided by the default configuration, unless it has been overwritten.

The problem come from your configuration:

https://github.com/kclarkson/kaleem-clarkson/blob/master/config.yml#L60:

  compile:
  # customize colors
  variables:
    primary: '#69B7FF'
    secondary: '#69C748'

compile option is empty.
It should be (YAML indentation):

  compile:
    # customize colors
    variables:
      primary: '#69B7FF'
      secondary: '#69C748'

I hope I've helped you.