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rust-nairobi / website

Rust Nairobi User Group website
http://nairobi.rs
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move to a Rust framework #1

Open charleschege opened 4 years ago

charleschege commented 4 years ago

Moving the website to be based on Rust will create opportunities for collaboration in the language and offer a learning opportunity for many. Even the frontend should have support for webassembly

charleschege commented 4 years ago

We can write the posts in simple markdown files and convert to HTML using a markdown to html converter

charleschege commented 4 years ago

I will kickstart the project using Rocket.rs as it is simple to pick up and we don't need async functionality at the moment

charleschege commented 4 years ago

We should use a simple database or key/value store since this is not a huge website. I propose we use a rust crate called sled

charleschege commented 4 years ago

We can also create a repo for the posts so that they undergo peer review here on github before we can pull them to the website

Eddie-254 commented 4 years ago

I really want to be part of this project. It will help me as I learn the language