base16-builder-node

A builder for schemes and templates based on clear, universal style specifications. The output is app specific theming configurations. Build a color scheme once, use it everywhere.

Features

• Supports both base16 and base24 style specs (with more to come)
  • Chris's original Base16 v0.2 styling spec
  • Base24 (5625d94) styling spec
• Conforms to the Builder v0.10.1 spec
• Builds all installed templates/schemes in one quick pass

What is a style specification?

A specification details palette architecture and how it should be used for rendering application UI or syntax highlighting. Real life implementations of a style specification typically include a color scheme and app templates.

Supported specifications

• Base16 - an architecture of carefully chosen syntax highlighting using a base of just sixteen colors.
• Base24 - Base16 plus an additional 8 colors to allow using all 16 ANSI colors in the terminal.

Install

npm install -g base16-builder-node

This package provides a base16 console command. Invoke it from any directory you want to build your themes, templates, and schemes in.

Basic Usage - Base16 example

Your working directory will need the following substructure:

• base16/schemes
• base16/templates

$ cd working_dir
$ mkdir -p base16/templates && cd base16
$ git clone https://github.com/base16-project/base16-schemes.git schemes
$ cd templates
$ git clone [your template of choice]
$ git clone [another template of choice]
$ base16 build base16 --prefix base16-

Builds all templates found in base16/templates using all scheme files from base16/schemes applying the base16- prefix to each.

Build Assets

The theme files will be generated inside every template directory in the subdirectory specified by that template's configuration.

For example: textmate. The built files would be found at:

./templates/textmate/Themes,

If you are a template maintainer

The easiest thing is to simply maintain your template repository inside your base16-build working folder (or symlink it).

You could facilitate this easily (from inside your template dir) with a tiny build script, etc:

#!/bin/bash
cd ../../..
base16 build

Credit where it's due

Color wheel icon thanks to Color icons created by Nikita Golubev - Flaticon.