Use proper frameworks for building dlang.org

[aldanor via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 18 January 2015 at 10:24:29 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> Lately Andrei has worked a lot with improving the dlang.org 
> site in various ways. To me it getting more clear and clear 
> that Ddoc is not the right tool for building a web site. 
> Especially the latest "improvement" [1] shows that it's not a 
> good idea to reinvent the wheel, especially when it's not an 
> improvement, at all.
>
> Why don't we instead make use of a proper framework both on the 
> server side and client side. Personally I would go with Ruby on 
> Rails but I know that most of you here would hate that so a 
> better suggestion would probably be vibe.d. For the client side 
> I'm thinking Bootstrap and jQuery.
>
> The biggest reason why I would prefer Rails is because I know 
> everything that is needed is already implemented and easily 
> available. I can not say the same thing about vibe.d. But it 
> might be enough for dlang.org, I don't know.
>
> What do you think?
>
> [1] http://forum.dlang.org/thread/m9f558$lbb$1@digitalmars.com
I would agree on this in general. Not sure about Rails (because 
it is totally an overkill and may be a pain to maintain) but 
everyone has their own preferences for the backend and templating 
engine.... in this case even a proper static generator (Jekyll if 
you're talking Ruby) with a proper responsive front end (JQuery  
+ Bootstrap / Foundation / Semantic UI / whichever) would do. If 
it's markdown-based, it would also significantly lower the 
barrier for people other than a few devs who would like to 
contribute to the docs and website but would hate to do it in 
ddoc.