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html5-boilerplate
Plain HTML, CSS and JS starter template for websites and web apps
- Stars
- 57.7k
- License
- MIT
- Last commit
- Nov 2026
- Last release
- Apr 2024
- Language
- JavaScript
57,071 on 21 Apr 202657,668 on 10 Nov 2026
From GitHub's daily star counts.
Checked on GitHub.
Overview
Front-end starter template with Open Graph placeholders, CSS helper classes, media query placeholders and print styles. It also includes an example package.json with WebPack commands. It imposes no framework, and the published artifact is the dist/ folder, available via npx, npm, a template repo or a zip. It has no AI functionality.
Who it is for: Front-end developers who want a bare, framework-free site starter
Strengths
- No framework imposed; delete-key friendly, so unused parts are easy to strip out
- Several install paths: npx create script, GitHub template repo, npm package, zip
- Documentation is bundled with the project for offline reading
- MIT license, with more than 10 years of iterative development
Weaknesses
- No AI features, auth, billing or database; static front-end files only
- Last tagged release is v9.0.0 from April 2024
- Cloning this repo is not the intended use; only dist/ is the product
- Build setup relies on WebPack commands and has no component model
What it needs
- JavaScript
- Needs Node.js, npm
Quick answers
Is html5-boilerplate open source?
Yes. Its code is on GitHub under the MIT license.
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