Punch

A Fun and Easy Way to Build Modern Websites

Punch is a simple, intuitive web publishing framework that will delight both designers and developers.

With Punch you can...

• Use boilerplates to quickly setup a site.
• Write minimal templates with Mustache.
• Create flexible site structures with inheritable layouts and partials.
• Define page contents in JSON.
• Use Markdown to write formatted content.
• Use CoffeeScript and LESS if that's your thing.
• Minify and bundle assets before serving.
• Preview changes on the fly, while you develop.
• Set cache headers and compress responses. (play nice with CDNs)
• Easily publish to Amazon S3 or to a custom server with SFTP.

Wait, There's more...

• Use any data source for content (eg. Relational databases, Document stores or REST APIs).
• Don't like Mustache? Switch to a different template engine of your choice.
• Write helpers to add run-time behaviour.
• Add custom content parsers, pre-compilers, minifiers and publishers.
• Add hooks to run after generating a page or site.
• Define your own publishing strategy.

Getting Started

• Download and install Node.js. http://nodejs.org/#download

• To install Punch, run npm install -g punch

• You can create your first site by running: punch setup mysite

• Then, go to the mysite directory and start the server: cd mysite; punch s

• Open your browser and visit: http://localhost:9009

• Follow the steps in hands-on tutorial.

Note: If you experience any issues in installing Punch on Windows, please read this guide.

Alternatively, you can use Nitrous.IO to setup a development enviroment to hack Punch.

Documentation

For complete documentation on usage & customizations, check the Punch Guide

Licence

MIT LICENSE