I'm excited folks are interested in my prototypes! The work done in https://github.com/edx/marketing-site is a Django/Wagtail-based CMS. I initially went down that path because it was Python/Django and offered the ability to export data to S3 for a static site.
Since that time I have also done some work with Node.js and Lambda. This initially began as an effort to do server-side rendering of React (hence the use of Node.js), but that made less sense to me as I continued my investigation. I blogged about this work at https://engineering.edx.org/serverless-984cee7797e1. There still seems to be a push toward server-side rendered React at edX, so we will most likely go down this path for pages that can be powered by the Discovery API—course, instructor, subject, school, search—and continue using Drupal for fully-customizable pages such as the homepage and landing pages. I'm happy to consult on either approach if someone is interested in leading the efforts. In the interest of full transparency, this is an area where edX.org probably won't be leading the efforts. All marketing site changes on our end will be a gradual evolution toward a hybrid between Drupal and some other static marketing site (most likely powered by Node.js to support React). We simply rely on Drupal too much to make a large shift. I would not be surprised if Drupal is still in use a year from now. Clinton On Monday, October 30, 2017 at 2:42:32 PM UTC-4, Pierre Mailhot wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > Here at EDUlib, we want to build a minimal open source "marketing site" on > top of the Open edX catalog which is available with the LMS. Unfortunately, > not everybody has the ressources (staff, money and time) to build a new > front-end. > > For example, what we need is something similar to a minimal clone of the > https://www.edx.org site (see also https://github.com/edx/marketing-site > or edx-mktg) but built on Django and based on the architectural vision of > Clinton Blackburn, i.e. with all the information coming from the course > discovery service (see https://github.com/edx/course-discovery). > > Has anyone in the open source community started a project like that? > If yes, can you share what you are doing? > If no, who would be interested in sharing the efforts in making such a > "marketing site" available to the open source community? > > What would be a good starting point? > > Is the work Clinton has done last year would be a good starting points? > See https://github.com/edx/marketing-site. > > Any ideas? > Any suggestions? > Anyone interested? > > Thanks in advance for any ideas, suggestions or comments. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "General Open edX discussion" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/edx-code/68af14ea-f57c-44aa-bb79-c29a594bcc95%40googlegroups.com.
