Use proper frameworks for building dlang.org

[Sebastiaan Koppe 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

Vibe.d is already used to pre-render the site from ddox to html 
as it is. It's usage can probably be extended to serving the 
whole site.

It is a good idea since any tooling you might build for this 
site, can then be reused by other people.