Foundation by ZURB is the most advance responsive fron-end framework in the world. Its not only advance but also easy to use has almost everything to build a responsive website / app. Its easy to install just download foundation framework from their website and start building websites. But customization like changing style of Top Nav bar or link color become a complex task as it is powered by SASS (Sass is the most mature, stable, and powerful professional grade CSS extension language in the world) and installing Foundation with SASS is a daunting task even you follow the instruction of Zurb website for linux . In this tutorial I am going to tell you how to do it on latest Ubuntu 14.04.
First Open terminal and install Ruby :
sudo apt-get install ruby
Then we have to install NodeJS :
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:chris-lea/node.js
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python-software-properties python g++ make nodejs
Now Bower :
sudo npm install -g bower grunt-cli
Install foundation and compass
sudo gem install foundation
sudo gem install compass
Now Add Git :
sudo apt-get install git
Now we have done. The only thing we left is creating a foundation project
open terminal and change your path assuming your are uisng latest version of XAMPP
cd /opt/lampp/htdocs
Create a project called openplus
use command
foundation new openplus
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