[ANN] Sprinkles - zero-programming web dev platform
A little something I've been working on: https://sprinkles.tobiasdammers.nl/ You feed it a bunch of templates, content in files, databases, APIs, etc., define routes and map them onto data sources and templates using a YAML configuration file, and it'll serve that as a full blown website. It sits somewhere in between a classic CMS and a static site generator. The code is available on github: https://github.com/tdammers/sprinkles Both the sprinkles website and that for ginger (https://ginger.tobiasdammers.nl/) are built on Sprinkles (following some advice about dog food I read somewhere). Before I unleash this to a more general audience, I'd like to get some honest (harsh) criticism here, on both the code itself and the available materials (website, documentation). Feel free to roast me relentlessly. -- Tobias Dammers - tdammers@gmail.com
Following is not clear from the front page:
* How is this different from Jekyll?
* What would make a good use-case for this tool? When is a full-blown CMS
overkill? When is a static-site generator too limiting? What is the sweet
spot for this project?
-- Saurabh.
On 27 Nov 2016 1:58 am, "Tobias Dammers"
A little something I've been working on:
https://sprinkles.tobiasdammers.nl/
You feed it a bunch of templates, content in files, databases, APIs, etc., define routes and map them onto data sources and templates using a YAML configuration file, and it'll serve that as a full blown website. It sits somewhere in between a classic CMS and a static site generator.
The code is available on github:
https://github.com/tdammers/sprinkles
Both the sprinkles website and that for ginger (https://ginger.tobiasdammers.nl/) are built on Sprinkles (following some advice about dog food I read somewhere).
Before I unleash this to a more general audience, I'd like to get some honest (harsh) criticism here, on both the code itself and the available materials (website, documentation). Feel free to roast me relentlessly.
-- Tobias Dammers - tdammers@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list To (un)subscribe, modify options or view archives go to: http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe Only members subscribed via the mailman list are allowed to post.
On 11/26/16 12:27 PM, Tobias Dammers wrote:
https://sprinkles.tobiasdammers.nl/ Hi Tobias, thanks for this. A few thoughts I had so far while trying it on OSX:
I love the concept! Holds the promise of significantly lowering the cost of building routine web apps. The flexibility of storage backends and content formats is great. I wished for a hackage release to try it out more easily. Installing all the C deps was not hard using brew, but I would have preferred if it just used the ones I have (postgres) and disabled the others (mysql, fcgi). The country demo failed some of the time due to the demo account exceeding its quota. I wishfully assumed it would reload all config files and content on the fly. Awww. I think that would be in keeping with it's "quick and easy" direction. Sprinkles doesn't make app development programming-free of course. It removes the compilation step (you still have to restart the app), and replaces functional, scalable Haskell programming with imperative, easy-to-start-with ginger and yaml code. Those do not look so lovely to a haskeller, but the advantages for rapid development and sharing with non-haskellers could be quite persuasive, especially with more dynamic reloading. Down the road, it seems also possible that such "interpreted" web apps could be mechanically "compiled" to some degree.
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