Base A gets your next project up and running quickly with common starter files and configurations.

• Clone this repository to your local environment.
• Run npm install to download the dependencies.
• Run gulp watch in the terminal to start a local server at port 3001.

• Babel
• Conslice
• Express
• Gulp
• HTML
• jQuery
• SASS

Gulp speeds up development with the following tasks.

• Transpile multiple SASS files to one minified CSS file.
• Transpile multiple JS files to one minified JS file (see c023 in conslice/comments.md).
• In conjunction with Chrome's livereload extension, hot reloading when a change in project files is made. You must be using the Chrome browser and enable this extension for hot reloading work correctly.

Base A uses an object-based format within an IIFE to better control the scoping issues that are the bane of every developer's existence. This type of setup is ideal when using jQuery and writing less than 200 lines of JavaScript code.

jQuery is implemented as a dependency instead of being loaded through a CDN which allows you to work offline. One disadvantage of using it, though, is the tendency for novice developers to spiral into writing spaghetti code. When this happens, it is time to abandon jQuery (see c023 in conslice/comments.md).