Should we consider this project retired?

[andreimoment]

The last closed issue is from April 20 2015.

There have not been new versions in a very long time.

Does KKBox have an intention to continue development on this project?

Thank you!

[Patta]

i think its dead, like compass

[selfthinker]

For a while they had it more prominently on their homepage, no idea why they removed it (it is still on the top of the GitHub wiki homepage). But it is officially dead, read the reasoning behind it.

[selfthinker]

I just realised that it also states that it is not maintained anymore at the very top of the project's README file.

[andreimoment]

Thank you, Anika.

I've started using middleman app for newer projects. Seems like I'll be updating fire.app projects to middlemanapp. On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 3:57 AM Anika Henke notifications@github.com wrote:

I just realised that it also states that it is not maintained anymore at the very top of the project's README file.

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[encosion]

Good find @andreimoment, will look into this. Thanks.

[selfthinker]

Fire.app is only a wrapper around Serve, and that project seems to still be alive. So, anyone who doesn't need the newbie/non-dev friendliness of Fire.app could use Serve instead and wouldn't need to re-write any Fire.app projects. Middleman (and others) works equally well for new projects. If you need to cater for non-devs, I'm not sure which alternatives there are. Middleman & Co wouldn't fit in that case.

[tka]

Fire.app use a patched Serve, eg. layout system.

https://github.com/tka/serve_ext is the monkey patch

[andreimoment]

Thank you.

I'll take a look at serve.

I already use middleman for new projects and can testify to its usefulness ;)

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Fire.app use a patched Serve, eg. layout system.

https://github.com/tka/serve_ext is the monkey patch

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[selfthinker]

I recently migrated a personal Fire.app project to Middleman. It was really easy as both apps are quite similar. I thought I'd share the steps I took:

• Move (nearly) everything under /source (except dotfiles, Gemfile, config.*, README, etc)
• Set :css_dir, :js_dir and :images_dir correctly in config.rb to match corresponding asset directories
• Move and rename _layout.html.erb to layouts/layout.erb (i.e. move into folder, rename, remove '.html')
• (In my case I didn't deal with other layouts, but here is how: https://middlemanapp.com/basics/layouts/)
• Change all occurrences of <%= render ... into <%= partial ...
• Change every request.path to current_page.url
• Move helpers from view_helpers.rb into config.rb into a helpers do block
• It's not necessary but it's better to change all links to use link_to as that gives you more options and makes things more flexible

There might be more to do for other projects but that was all that was necessary in my case.

[andreimoment]

Thank you, this is very useful!

[stebdjui]

Hello, for all people that searching a newer tool then fire.app:

This project is alive and up to date: https://prepros.io/ Works also fine on a windows machine!

[andreimoment]

Is this a drop-in replacement for fireapp? Will it work in the same way with partials, layouts etc.? On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 10:47 AM stebdjui notifications@github.com wrote:

Hello, this project is alive and up to date: https://prepros.io/ Works also fine on windows machine!

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[selfthinker]

If Prepros works for you or not depends on how you've used fire.app. In my case, having used fire.app for prototypes, it is not a replacement, especially because of the partials and layouts etc. As far as I know, there just is no drop-in replacement. The one app which comes closest to that is Middleman (see above). The only thing Middleman doesn't have is easy installation by non-technical people (because it came with everything, no need to install anything but fire,app). That is something that Prepros seems to be doing. For other potential alternatives see http://alternativeto.net/software/fire-app/, although I don't think the list is very helpful for my use case.

[andreimoment]

Thank you, Anika. Like you, I migrated my process (and some of the old Fire.app projects) to middlemanapp.

It would be nice to have an easy to install replacement but at this point I am used to middleman and the flexibility its ecosystem provides.