On Fri, Mar 1, 2019 at 9:13 PM Miro Hrončok <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 28. 02. 19 20:14, Rick Elrod wrote:
> > On the backend, I believe we could benefit from looking at modern
> > static website generators and shifting from our custom solution to
> > something newer and better supported. As stretch goals, we could also
> > look at the infrastructure side of things and change up how
> > deployments work. However, that might be out of scope for the first go
> > at this spec.
>
> We have been very happy with Flask [1] based backends with Frozen-Flask
> [2]. A
> static side generator based on a dynamic web framewrok.
>
> There is Elsa [3], our litter opinionated helper around those (probably
> not
> usable in Fedora, as it assumes GitHub pages, but linked it anyway for
> reference).
>
> We use it in Fedora for fedoralovespython.org [4] and portingdb.xyz [5].
>
> The Czech Python community uses it for python.cz, pyvec.org,
> naucse.python.cz,
> pyladies.cz and others. The Slovak Python community freezes Flask for
> pycon.sk
> AFAIK.
>
> The good thing about such Frozen-Flask approach is that you can change a
> website
> (or part of it) to dynamic or back as needed. If you choose a static only
> framework, you are bound to static.
>
> Flask is vivid yet stable, very popular Python web framework.
>


Thanks Miro!

Will have to have a look at frozen-flask. FWIW, i also have prototype of a
script for generating our static sites using Jinja2 as the templating
language. It currently supports translations and multiple sites with common
shared templates:

https://pagure.io/fedora-websites-jinja-poc/

cheers,
ryanlerch



>
> [1] http://flask.pocoo.org/
> [2] https://pythonhosted.org/Frozen-Flask/
> [3] https://github.com/pyvec/elsa
> [4] https://github.com/fedora-python/fedoralovespython.org
> [5] https://github.com/fedora-python/portingdb
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