You will need Node and Bower installed in order to make using this framework easy
Step 1: Install Node
$ sudo apt-get install nodejs
Step 2: Use Node to install Bower
$ npm install -g bower
Step 1: Install Homebrew (a similar tool to Ubuntu's apt-get)
ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/go/install)"
Step 2: Use Homebrew to install Node
$ sudo brew install node
Step 3: Use Node to install Bower
$ npm install -g bower
While node is installed on your system (because of the above steps), you can now use node (and the npm system) to download certain tools for this project. The tools that will be installed are listed in your package.json
file. Currently that file is setup to install Grunt, Sass, and Autoprefixer. The command to tell node to install the tools listed in the package file is:
$ npm install
Your node modules will now be installed in your node_modules/
folder. You probably won't need to go in this folder for anything.
While bower is installed on your system (because of the above steps), you can now use bower to download certain tools for this project. The tools that will be installed are listed in your bower.json
file. Currently that file is setup to install jQuery, Modernizr, and ReptileForms. The command to tell bower to install the tools listed in the bower file is:
$ bower install
Your bower components will now be installed in your bower_components
folder.