Environment Setup

To get started with Geeks Theme, the only requirement is a Node Js, Gulp, SASS & PHP environment.

Please note: this step is absolutely optional. It aims for advanced user who want to speed up development process with professional grade Front-End toolset shiped with Geeks. If you are not familiar with these tools and have no time to dive in you can still use plain HTML / CSS / JS to customize Geeks. Files you need are located inside Geeks/src folder. In this case you can skip this and next sections. Happy coding :)

Modern development toolset.

Below are the tools which we use to building a Geeks theme. For more detail of the toolset, go to their official website.

Node Js

Node.js is an open-source, cross-platform, back-end JavaScript runtime environment that runs on the V8 engine and executes JavaScript code outside a web browser.

PHP

PHP A popular general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited to web development. Fast, flexible and pragmatic, the most popular websites in the world.

SASS

Sass (short for syntactically awesome style sheets) is a preprocessor scripting language that is interpreted or compiled into Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).

Bootstrap 5

Bootstrap is a free and open-source CSS framework directed at responsive, mobile-first front-end web development. Geeks is built on 5 and heavily depends on it.

XAMPP

XAMPP(For Windows) is an easy to install Apache distribution containing MariaDB, PHP, and Perl. Just download and start the installer. It's that easy. Installers created using.