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What are the best boilerplates for modern webapp front-end development?

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openWhy do you recommend HTML5 Boilerplate?

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Includes a comprehensive set of server configuration files

 
These configuration files may help increase performance of the webapp.
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Includes Modernizr

 
Modernizr checks browser support for HTML5, CSS3, as well as a few other miscellaneous elements and allows for easily writing fallbacks if they'...
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Not a complete solution

 
HTML5 Boilerplate is basically just that, a template or a basis on which to build an HTML page. It doesn't have much mark up or components out of...
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openWhy do you recommend Initializr?

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Integrates Twitter Bootstrap and HTML5 Boilerplate

 
Initializr allows you to "fine-tune" your template by allowing you to take the good stuff from both HTML5BP and Twitter Bootstrap and downl...
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Well documented

 
Initializr is very well documented, even though it itself being a pretty easy to understand and use tool. The documentations are available in differe...
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No ZURB Foundation support

 
Some developers much prefer Foundation over Bootstrap due to the flexible grid and large selection of widgets. However, Initializr supports only Boot...
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openWhy do you recommend Webapp generator?

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Built in preview server & live reload

 
The yeoman watch will compile your source files for you and refresh your page in the browser, as soon as it detects some changes that you've mad...
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Auto resolve dependencies

 
Any dependencies in the webapp generated can be automatically resolved, thanks to Web-app-generator's powerful integration with Bower.
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Default support is for libsass

 
Webapp generator currently has default support for libsass, which falls behind Sass in features (therefor has some incompatibilities with Sass).
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openWhy do you recommend Google's Web Starter Kit?

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Requires Node, Ruby, Sass and Gulp.

CSS vendor autoprefixing

 
Starter Kit includes Autoprefixer that takes care of vendor prefixes.
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Responsive

 
Since most of the websites that are currently being built (or any website that was built after 2012) are responsive, a 'scaffold-ed' website...
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Can't be used with Less

 
The framework CSS is built on Sass, which adds dependencies to the build chain. There's no option to use Less.
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openWhy do you recommend ngbp?

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Formerly ng-boilerplate.

Grunt-based build system

 
The Grunt-based build system makes it easy to switch out plugins (for example, Sass for Less).
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AngularJS only

 
ngbp is specifically for kickstarting AngularJS projects, so it won't be suitable if you're going to use another framework.
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openWhy do you recommend Phở Devstack?

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Highly configurable

 
It's easy to turn off any default plugin you don't want to use.
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Poor documentation

 
The documentation is poorly organized and doesn't provide a lot of details on using Phở.
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openWhy do you recommend HotTowel?

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Supports multiple frameworks

 
Versions exists for Angular, Durandal and others
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Everything included

 
Includes build script support for Unit testing, minification, etc.
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