Modularization of your HTML

Although we'll only create a one-page design in this chapter, using a template engine for your project is not a bad idea. Whenever you decide to extend your project with one or more other HTML pages, DRY coding your HTML will make your work more efficient and reusable. Many HTML template languages and engines are available. Bootstrap uses the Jekyll static site generator to enable you to run its documentation locally. Many templates for Bootstrap CLI use Nunjucks now. In this chapter, you will meet Panini for Gulp. Panini is a flat file compiler that uses the concepts of templates, pages, and partials powered by the Handlebars templating language.

For the marketing example project, you'll have to create the following file and directory structure, which holds your HTML templates:

In the preceding file and directory structure, the pages directory contains your pages. Each page has a layout, which can be found in the layouts directory. Both pages and layouts may include...