As has been discussed in Discord a bit, I think that it's worth thinking about a potential rewrite of the segs.io site. My main motivation for this is (honestly) that I don't like PHP and don't want to use it, and it seemed like there wasn't much development happening, so some development in technology I enjoyed would be better than none in PHP.
However, it seems there's a number of people who are still interested, so I thought it's worth having this here rather than purely in discussions on discord so it's somewhat easier to keep track of things.
So, if we were to rewrite, the main benefit would be the possible introduction of some more modern web development technologies, such as front-end frameworks (Angular, React or Vue), css preprocessors (SASS or LESS), testing (Karma, Protractor, Jasmine, Chai, etc), and probably others I'm forgetting.
If this is something that were to happen, there'd be some additional considerations as well:
What structure should be used - should there be a web server, what functionality would be on the web server or segs_server, separate authentication or not, etc.
What changes would need to be made to segs_server or libraries used (jcon-cpp would need to be changed to support secure websockets, for example)
Which language, if any, for the web server?
Python
PHP
Ruby
NodeJS
C# with .NET Core
Other
Which framework, if any, would be used for the web server
Ruby - On Rails
PHP - Laravel, Symfony
Python - Django, Flask
NodeJS - Express, Meteor
.NET Core - MVC?
Other
Which framework, if any, would be used for the front-end
Angular
React
Vue
Other
Which additional frameworks, if any, should be considered
Angular comes with RxJS
Angular and React both use TypeScript
Libraries for parsing json
Etc
Styling - Themes, Color Scheme
Will need to make Installation, Configuration and Theming as easy as possible, really.
Comments, Ideas, Changes, Other things to consider?
As has been discussed in Discord a bit, I think that it's worth thinking about a potential rewrite of the segs.io site. My main motivation for this is (honestly) that I don't like PHP and don't want to use it, and it seemed like there wasn't much development happening, so some development in technology I enjoyed would be better than none in PHP.
However, it seems there's a number of people who are still interested, so I thought it's worth having this here rather than purely in discussions on discord so it's somewhat easier to keep track of things.
So, if we were to rewrite, the main benefit would be the possible introduction of some more modern web development technologies, such as front-end frameworks (Angular, React or Vue), css preprocessors (SASS or LESS), testing (Karma, Protractor, Jasmine, Chai, etc), and probably others I'm forgetting.
If this is something that were to happen, there'd be some additional considerations as well:
What structure should be used - should there be a web server, what functionality would be on the web server or segs_server, separate authentication or not, etc.
What changes would need to be made to segs_server or libraries used (jcon-cpp would need to be changed to support secure websockets, for example)
Which language, if any, for the web server?
Which framework, if any, would be used for the web server
Which framework, if any, would be used for the front-end
Which additional frameworks, if any, should be considered
Styling - Themes, Color Scheme
Will need to make Installation, Configuration and Theming as easy as possible, really.
Comments, Ideas, Changes, Other things to consider?