1 Reply Latest reply on May 14, 2014 5:48 PM by jonbullock

    [forge-dev] Development of the Forge Website

    gastaldi

      Hi all,

       

      I am developing the website based on the templates and I'd like to

      discuss about the technologies to be used. I am personally in favor of

      static generation, since:

       

      - It's easier to maintain

      - Changes can happen in a pull-request process.

      - No need for a database or any external resources

      - It's fast (because it's static)

      - Can be deployed using Github's infrastructure

      - Templates can be easily adapted

       

      We already do this with the Forge 1 website and it's playing well so

      far. However since I am not a big fan of Ruby, I am playing a bit with

      JBake (which uses Freemarker) and found it quite interesting.

       

      We could make it part of a CI job, and fire when changes in the

      repository happens.

       

      The development branch uses JSF+JPA and it's quite a burden to maintain

      (sync changes to DB, etc) and it's slow.

      I believe the best would be having the data available in Github as a

      JSON/YAML file and use that in the website generation. Docs can also be

      generated inside the website through git submodules (with the forge/docs

      repository).

       

      There is the advantage of not needing extra resources (Openshift gears

      for example).

       

      Thoughts?

       

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        • 1. Re: [forge-dev] Development of the Forge Website
          jonbullock

          I may be biased here but I'm chuffed that JBake is even being considered!

           

          The v2.3.0 release has added Groovy & Thymeleaf template support and it's considerably easier to add more now too. Now that the release is out the door, I can spend some time on the long overdue Forge addon for JBake.

           

          Anyway if you need anything relating to JBake just drop me a message.