# google/web-starter-kit

Web Starter Kit - a workflow for multi-device websites

Repository: https://github.com/google/web-starter-kit
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/web-starter-kit
Homepage: http://developers.google.com/web/starter-kit
Language: HTML
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Archived: true
Last push: 2024-04-22T23:42:34+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4531, "days_push": 863, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 18273, forks 2912 (observed 2026-08-28T04:11:26.528848+00:00)

## What it is
Google's Web Starter Kit is an opinionated boilerplate and build workflow for creating responsive, multi-device websites. It bundles Sass compilation, ESLint linting, Babel ES2015 transpilation, a local HTTP server, and performance optimization via Gulp.

## Use cases
- bootstrap a responsive multi-device website
- starter template for a new web project with best practices
- set up a gulp build pipeline with sass and linting
- create a performance-optimized static site scaffold
- learn Google's recommended web development workflow
- quickly scaffold a site using Material Design Lite

## When to choose
- starting a simple static or multi-device website from scratch
- you want an opinionated setup with Sass, linting, and build tooling preconfigured
- you want to follow Google's Web Fundamentals best practices

## When to avoid
- building a modern SPA with React, Vue, or another framework that has its own tooling
- you need actively maintained tooling - the project is in maintenance mode and modern alternatives like Vite are more current
- server-side rendering or full-stack applications

## Facets
- artifact type: learning-resource
- maturity: maintenance
- function: build-tool, linter, http-server, css-framework, templating
- domain: web-development, frontend, developer-tools
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: boilerplate, responsive-design, sass, gulp, material-design, performance-optimization, multi-device, starter-kit, boilerplate, nodejs, web-server

## Member repositories
- google/web-starter-kit (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:26.528848+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T08:30:59.042260+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/google/web-starter-kit (fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:26.528848+00:00, sha 18b318e0efe2)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.