Redesign of dlang.org

[Aleksandar Ruzicic via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 21 April 2014 at 20:12:31 UTC, David Gileadi wrote:
> On 4/21/14, 12:38 PM, Aleksandar Ruzicic wrote:
>> I'm not sure if it is smart to use simple text macro 
>> processing system
>> as a replacement for full-featured DSL such is Sass. And I 
>> don't think
>> that some features available (and really useful!) in Sass are 
>> even
>> possible with Ddoc. For example branching with @if, composing 
>> of various
>> style sets to optimal CSS (Sass has @extend directive for 
>> this).
>> Also, Ddoc can't minify resulting CSS which is something that 
>> is
>> considered good practice (serve gzipped minified JS/CSS), so 
>> some
>> external tool must be used for that. With node-sass we can get 
>> all that
>> and more (i.e. source maps)..
>
> A little searching turned up libsass.org which apparently is 
> the native library that node.js uses for its implementation. So 
> if there's an objection to full node.js (or if vibe.d is used) 
> then perhaps the native library would do.

Oh, I forgot to mention that I'm not advocating the use of 
node.js to serve dlang.org (I'm all for vibe.d route!), just to 
use node.js packages I'm used to (i.e. gulp[1], gulp-sass[2] and 
gulp-browserify[3]) that ease me in working with front-end 
projects.

[1] https://www.npmjs.org/package/gulp
[2] https://www.npmjs.org/package/gulp-sass
[3] https://www.npmjs.org/package/gulp-browserify