Hi, Background: I saw a developer who started an app from forking Robert's Firefox OS boilerplate. Which is fine, but by now has also largely been superseded by other efforts, such as webide+mortar templates and, coming up, recroom. I think, to me, they are complementing each other. To explain, the reasoning and motivation behind the Boilerplate App is to avoid any dependencies whatsoever but for what's available for Open Web Apps/with WebAPIs. No 3rd party libraries or frameworks needed, and you can just copy-paste the parts you need for your app.
As feedback showed to tofumatt's great article and Rec Room, some love it and think it's fantastic, while others believe it has become way too complicated. And with the difficulties getting traction for Firefox OS/Open Web Apps, I believe it's important that we have simpler options too, not too scare developers away. I suggest: - a "NOTE:" of some sort on top of old "this is how you make an app" articles on Hacks, pointing to the MDN App Center - a similar note on older repositories on github In fact, we could probably add this kind of pointer to up-to-date repos and posts as well, in case someone finds their way there by way of Google. Absolutely! On Hacks we don't get that much traffic to older article about Apps, but I think this would be really good nonetheless and also give good linking to MDN. I'm also looking into getting more engagement on Hacks, both through lowering the bounce rate but also driving traffic to other Mozilla properties (MDN being the biggest one). The blog has good attention for single blog posts but I'd like to create a interest in other things we offer as well beyond the current article they're reading. If you let me know which articles should point to MDN, I'd be more than happy to add it! I also added a sentence about it in the README for the Boilerplate App: https://github.com/robnyman/Firefox-OS-Boilerplate-App - Robert On 20 Aug 2014 at 22:32:14, Fred Wenzel ([email protected]) wrote: Hello everyone, With plenty of older, google-able entry points to app development, what should we do to funnel people to the right, up to date starting points? Background: I saw a developer who started an app from forking Robert's Firefox OS boilerplate. Which is fine, but by now has also largely been superseded by other efforts, such as webide+mortar templates and, coming up, recroom. I suggest: - a "NOTE:" of some sort on top of old "this is how you make an app" articles on Hacks, pointing to the MDN App Center - a similar note on older repositories on github In fact, we could probably add this kind of pointer to up-to-date repos and posts as well, in case someone finds their way there by way of Google. What do you think? Fred _______________________________________________ dev-webapps mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-webapps
