Surveying the Roots assets folder

The Roots theme keeps its css, less, js, and img folders organized in its assets folder. Inside the assets folder, the structure is very similar to our structure from the Chapter 2, Bootstrappin' Your Portfolio, Portfolio site, as it is based, like ours, on the HTML5 Boilerplate.

We will soon replace Roots' assets with our own. But it's worth knowing how Roots works before we do so. Let's size up the contents of the Roots assets folder. The contents are shown in the following screenshot:

The Roots documentation (http://roots.io/roots-101/#theme-assets) explains how the files work together:

• In the less folder, the app.less file manages all style rules. It begins by importing all Bootstrap styles from the bootstrap.less file in the bootstrap folder and then provides commented sections with recommended selectors to write custom lines of LESS.

• The app.less file is intended to be compiled to the main.min.css file in the css folder.

• Also in the css folder is editor...