Operation Disassemble DocPad

[zenorocha]

DocPad made us possible to build an amazing project that helped many many events around the world.

It proved that a static generator can increase a developer's productivity when building small to complex applications. Since docpad/docpad#821 we've been thinking about moving to a different solution for a bunch of reasons.

That's why we're announcing a big rewrite using another static generator (obviously in Node) called Metalsmith. We're also switching template engines from eco to handlebars. Our hope is that this will make it even easier for you to use and contribute.

[obetomuniz]

👍 Challenge Accepted! No doubt this is a great choice.

[fdaciuk]

Nice!! ✨ ✨
The rewriten code is already on the Github?

[zenorocha]

Not yet @fdaciuk, @obetomuniz is working on it and will publish it in a separated branch in this repo.

@obetomuniz could you let us know when you push the code to this new branch?

[fdaciuk]

👍

[obetomuniz]

Today or tomorrow guys! 😸

[fdaciuk]

@obetomuniz 💃 💃 👍

[Nevraeka]

readthesource.io started using Hugo. Have you looked into it? One of the things we liked about it was that it doesn't get in the way of pluggable architecture and advanced code on top of the base templates. The real killer feature was that it builds super fast but it does require GoLang.

http://gohugo.io/

[zenorocha]

It's kinda hard for us to use a language other than JavaScript since this project belongs to BrazilJS foundation and we encourage JavaScript development. But that was a good tip @Nevraeka, I'm going to take a look on that. Thanks!

[Nevraeka]

:+1 understood. I need to check out metalsmith 😄

[obetomuniz]

Cool !!! I will test the Hugo Generator too, because in addition to love with JavaScript, I am also a little adept at GoLang, thank you for the tip @Nevraeka . But in the case of conf-boilerplate is what @zenorocha said.

[Nevraeka]

👍 @obetomuniz

[zenorocha]

So I just finished the Metalsmith migration. 🎉

Before merging it to master, I would like gather some feedback from you guys. Please check the metalsmith branch and let me know what you think.

I'll be working on a migration guide in the meanwhile.

[fdaciuk]

Nice work! ✨
I'll try it xD