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Craft CMS 5 Starter
===================

[](#craft-cms-5-starter)

An opinionated Craft CMS 5 boilerplate with a modern buildchain, a curated plugin set, and Claude Code project guidelines baked in.

What this is
------------

[](#what-this-is)

A starting point for new Craft CMS 5 sites. It pairs a DDEV-based local environment with a Vite 8 + Tailwind v4 front-end buildchain, a hand-picked set of plugins, and a vanilla-JS module system for scroll-driven animation and page transitions.

It also ships Claude Code project guidelines — a `CLAUDE.md`, a set of `.claude/rules/`, and skills — so AI-assisted work follows the project's conventions out of the box.

Stack
-----

[](#stack)

- **CMS**: Craft CMS 5.9
- **Environment**: DDEV — PHP 8.4, MySQL 8.0, nginx-fpm
- **Front-end build**: Vite 8 + Tailwind CSS v4 (`@tailwindcss/vite`)
- **JavaScript**: vanilla ES modules with a custom auto-discovered module system (`src/js/modules/`), GSAP for animation, Lenis for smooth scroll, and `@unseenco/taxi` for page transitions

Plugins
-------

[](#plugins)

- **CKEditor** — rich text
- **nystudio107 Vite** — Vite asset integration
- **nystudio107 Minify** — HTML output minification
- **Imager-X** — image transforms and optimization
- **Formie** — forms
- **Hyper** — links
- **Expanded Singles** — single-section editing improvements
- **statikbe Config Values** — config-driven values
- **Cloudflare R2** — object storage filesystem

Getting started
---------------

[](#getting-started)

```
composer create-project studiosyntax/craft-cms-starter my-project
cd my-project
ddev start
ddev craft install
ddev npm install
ddev npm run dev
```

All tooling runs through DDEV — use `ddev composer`, `ddev craft`, and `ddev npm` rather than the host equivalents. The Vite dev server is exposed on port 3000.

Project structure
-----------------

[](#project-structure)

```
templates/
├── _layouts/      # Base layout chain (layout-base, layout-page, layout-exception)
├── _views/        # Page-level templates by entry type (article/, pages/, index.twig)
├── _components/   # Reusable components (content/, global/, …)
├── _partials/     # Smaller shared fragments
├── _emails/       # Email templates
└── _errors/       # Error pages

src/
├── css/           # Tailwind v4 styles (site.css, @theme tokens)
└── js/            # Auto-discovered module system, entry at src/js/index.js

config/
└── project/       # Project config — sections, entry types, fields (source of truth)

```

Claude Code integration
-----------------------

[](#claude-code-integration)

The repository ships with Claude Code configuration so AI-assisted development respects the project's conventions:

- **`CLAUDE.md`** — project overview, tooling rules, and stack notes
- **`.claude/rules/`** — focused guidelines for architecture, templates, front-end CSS/JS, git workflow, and security
- **Skills** — Craft-specific skills for templates, PHP, content modeling, and more

License
-------

[](#license)

MIT

###  Health Score

34

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LowBetter than 75% of packages

Maintenance94

Actively maintained with recent releases

Popularity5

Limited adoption so far

Community6

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity26

Early-stage or recently created project

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~0 days

Total

3

Last Release

26d ago

### Community

Maintainers

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