# Web Awesome - Works with all frameworks 🧩 - Works with CDNs 🚛 - Fully customizable with CSS 🎨 - Includes an official dark theme 🌛 - Built with accessibility in mind ♿️ - Open source 😸 Built by the folks behind [Font Awesome](https://fontawesome.com/). --- Documentation: [webawesome.com](https://webawesome.com) Source: [github.com/shoelace-style/webawesome](https://github.com/shoelace-style/webawesome) Twitter: [@webawesomer](https://twitter.com/webawesomer) --- ## Developers ✨ Developers can use this documentation to learn how to build Web Awesome from source. You will need Node >= 14.17 to build and run the project locally. **You don't need to do any of this to use Web Awesome!** This page is for people who want to contribute to the project, tinker with the source, or create a custom build of Web Awesome. If that's not what you're trying to do, the [documentation website](https://webawesome.com) is where you want to be. ### What are you using to build Web Awesome? Components are built with [LitElement](https://lit-element.polymer-project.org/), a custom elements base class that provides an intuitive API and reactive data binding. The build is a custom script with bundling powered by [esbuild](https://esbuild.github.io/). ### Forking the Repo Start by [forking the repo](https://github.com/shoelace-style/webawesome/fork) on GitHub, then clone it locally and install dependencies. ```bash git clone https://github.com/YOUR_GITHUB_USERNAME/webawesome cd webawesome npm install ``` ### Developing Once you've cloned the repo, run the following command. ```bash npm start ``` This will spin up the dev server. After the initial build, a browser will open automatically. There is currently no hot module reloading (HMR), as browser's don't provide a way to reregister custom elements, but most changes to the source will reload the browser automatically. ### Building To generate a production build, run the following command. ```bash npm run build ``` ### Creating New Components To scaffold a new component, run the following command, replacing `wa-tag-name` with the desired tag name. ```bash npm run create wa-tag-name ``` This will generate a source file, a stylesheet, and a docs page for you. When you start the dev server, you'll find the new component in the "Components" section of the sidebar. ### Contributing Web Awesome is an open source project and contributions are encouraged! If you're interesting in contributing, please review the [contribution guidelines](CONTRIBUTING.md) first. ## License Web Awesome is available under the terms of the MIT license.