An alternate template for spike that uses jade (now pug), stylus, and coffeescript, like the default stack in roots.
If the spike new default template for use within spike isnt your preference and you would rather use the roots template within spike use spike-tpl-roots. Presuming you already have spike installed globally npm i spike -g you will just need to run the following:
spike tpl add roots https://github.com/static-dev/spike-tpl-roots.gitcd <projectpath>spike new <projectname> -t rootscd <projectname>spike watch
Spike uses sprout internally to generate it's project templates. This means you can even use this template without spike by using sprout directly.
npm i sprout-cli -gsprout add spike-tpl-roots https://github.com/static-dev/spike-tpl-roots.gitcd <projectpath>sprout new spike-tpl-roots <projectname>cd <projectname>npm installspike watch