FrankHossfeld
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8 months ago Regarding the discussion in #348 should I remove the eco system news site?
Open FrankHossfeld opened 8 months ago
FrankHossfeld
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8 months ago Regarding the discussion in #348 should I remove the eco system news site?
Motivation:
GWT is at least a Java to JavaScript transpiler. One of the resons, that we have modules inside the SDK, is, that in 2006, there were no eco system. The SDK has to offer it to be successful. Looking at the next generation transpiler J2CL, there is no SDK, nor these modules. It is up to the community to ensure, that the modules will work with J2CL. From this point of view, the importance of the GWT eco system increases and is mandatory.
Someone looking for information about 'GWT' will enter 'GWT' and pretty sure will land on this site. And, without any hint of the existing eco system, there will be a lot of information missing. Gathering information about GWT related libraries is not an easy and takes, especially, when you are not familar with the GWT eco system, a lot of time. Form my opinion, the gwtproject.org site is the entry point to the GWT SDK and the GWT eco system.
Changes: I have added two entries to the navigation:
The news links a site with news related to the GWT SDK, GWT modules & J2CL.
The eco system links to a site with some information about the history of GWT, the GWT modules, releases and third party libraries. There are a few more sites added related to this topic:
Note: I added a few libraries - the libraries I know. The list is not complete and I am happy to add more libraries in case the PR gets accepted.
Compared to #348, this PR makes a different between stuff related to the SDK and the eco system.
And, it adds information of the eco system which, I think, this site is also intended for.