Boilerplate for creating new theme for you Sitecore site.

For using Autosynchronizer, you need to complete next steps:

1. Download theme boilerplate;

2. Open PathToInstance/Website/App_Config/Include/z.Feature.Overrides (in previous version of Sitecore it can be PathToInstance/Website/App_Config/Include/Feature) folder and remove .disabled from z.SPE.Sync.Enabler.Gulp.config.disabled file;

3. Switch to downloaded theme boilerplate folder

4. Update config file for Gulp tasks. ThemeRoot/gulp/config.js file:

   1. serverOptions.server - path to sitecore instance. Example server: 'http://sxa';

5. If you use Creative exchange skip this step. Open ThemeRoot/gulp/serverConfig.json

   1. serverOptions.projectPath - path to project, where theme placed. Example projectPath: '/themes';
   2. serverOptions.themePath - path to basic theme folder from project root. Example themePath: '/Basic2';

6. Open Theme root folder with command line.

7. Run npm install (node.js and npm should be already installed);

8. If gulp is not yet installed - Install gulp using following command: npm install --global gulp-cli

9. Run gulp task which you need:
   Global tasks:

   1. gulp default or just gulp - starts gulp all-watch.
   2. gulp all-watch - run a list of tasks:
      sass-watch
js-watch
es-watch
css-watch
img-watch
watch-source-sass
html-watch
      

   For SASS

   1. gulp sass-watch - run a list of tasks: watch-component watch-base watch-styles watch-dependency
   2. gulp sassComponents - to compile sass styles just for components;
   3. gulp sassStyles - to compile sass additional styles for component;
   4. gulp watch-styles - watch changes under sass/styles/common , sass/styles/content-alignment , sass/styles/layout folders and compile all of them to styles/styles.css;
   5. gulp watch-base - watch on changes under sass/abstracts/, sass/base/ , sass/components folders and run compiling of components and styles;
   6. gulp watch-component - watch changes of component styles under sass folder and compile them to styles folder;
   7. gulp watch-dependency - watch changes under sass/styles/ (exluded sass/styles/common , sass/styles/content-alignment , sass/styles/layout) and compile appropriate component;

   For CSS

   1. gulp css-watch - watch on changes of css files under stytles folder and upload them to server;

   For JavaScript:

   1. gulp eslint - run eslint for all js in scripts folder;
   2. gulp js-watch - watch on changes of js files under scripts folder and upload them to server;
   3. gulp es-watch - watch on changes of ES6+ js files under sources folder and upload them to server;

   For HTML (if you work with creative exchange)

   1. gulp html-watch - watch changes of html files and upload them to the server;

   For Gulp files

   1. gulp watch-gulp - watch on changes of js and json files under gulp folder and upload them to server;

   For Images

   1. gulp img-watch - watch on changes under images folder and upload files to server;

   For Sprite

   1. gulp spriteFlag - to create sprite for flags;

10. When watcher starts you need to enter you login and password for sitecore, for uploading reason.