# Aldine
[](https://travis-ci.org/pressbooks/pressbooks-aldine) [](https://github.com/pressbooks/pressbooks-aldine/releases/latest)
Aldine is the new root theme for [Pressbooks ](https://github.com/pressbooks/pressbooks ), based on [Sage ](https://roots.io/sage/ ).
## Features
* Sass for stylesheets
* ES6 for JavaScript
* [Webpack ](https://webpack.github.io/ ) for compiling assets, optimizing images, and concatenating and minifying files
* [Browsersync ](http://www.browsersync.io/ ) for synchronized browser testing
* [Laravel Blade ](https://laravel.com/docs/5.4/blade ) as a templating engine
* [Controller ](https://github.com/soberwp/controller ) for passing data to Blade templates
## Requirements
Make sure all dependencies have been installed before moving on:
* [PHP ](http://php.net/manual/en/install.php ) >= 7.0
* [Composer ](https://getcomposer.org/download/ )
* [WordPress ](https://wordpress.org/ ) >= 4.8.1
* [Pressbooks ](https://github.com/pressbooks/pressbooks ) >= 4.3
* [Node.js ](http://nodejs.org/ ) >= 6.9.x
* [Yarn ](https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/install )
## Theme installation
Download the [latest zipped release ](https://github.com/pressbooks/pressbooks-aldine/releases/latest ) to your Pressbooks themes directory (`wp-content/themes` or `app/themes` ) and unzip the theme folder.
## Theme structure
```shell
themes/pressbooks-aldine/ # → Theme root
├── app/ # → Theme PHP
│ ├── controllers/ # → Controller files
│ ├── widgets/ # → Custom widget classes
│ ├── admin.php # → Theme customizer setup
│ ├── filters.php # → Theme filters
│ ├── helpers.php # → Helper functions
│ └── setup.php # → Theme setup
│ └── widgets.php # → Widget initialization
├── composer.json # → Autoloading for `app/` files
├── composer.lock # → Composer lock file (never edit)
├── dist/ # → Built theme assets (never edit)
├── functions.php # → Composer autoloader, theme includes
├── index.php # → Never manually edit
├── node_modules/ # → Node.js packages (never edit)
├── package.json # → Node.js dependencies and scripts
├── resources/ # → Theme assets and templates
│ ├── assets/ # → Front-end assets
│ │ ├── config.json # → Settings for compiled assets
│ │ ├── build/ # → Webpack and ESLint config
│ │ ├── fonts/ # → Theme fonts
│ │ ├── images/ # → Theme images
│ │ ├── scripts/ # → Theme JS
│ │ └── styles/ # → Theme stylesheets
│ └── views/ # → Theme templates
│ ├── layouts/ # → Base templates
│ └── partials/ # → Partial templates
├── screenshot.png # → Theme screenshot for WP admin
├── style.css # → Theme meta information
└── vendor/ # → Composer packages (never edit)
```
## Theme development
* Run `yarn` from the theme directory to install dependencies
### Build commands
* `yarn run start` — Compile assets when file changes are made, start Browsersync session
* `yarn run build` — Compile and optimize the files in your assets directory
* `yarn run build:production` — Compile assets for production
