Testing the water with the alpha GC Design System from the CDS.
In the past few weeks, there's a few thought that came around
it doesn't depend on jquery and it's using modern web design paradigm.
I don't like Jekyll, correction, I don't like Ruby and bundler, They are slow, heavy and the interaction with it's process is annoying.
I've used hugo in the past and it's incredibly fast and way ligher than dealing with Ruby. It's also usable with a single compiled binary in pretty much anything, probably even your toaster.
WET still depend on jquery, something that the Internet collectively decide should die, but they are sticking with it, and they are still using version 2. Even the Canada.ca version is using a version from 2016, a 7 years old version. depressing.
So yeah, WET can die, or evolve out of their jquery dependency. There are currently effort get rid of older jquery for WET 5, but it's still very much experimental and no movement since 2018.
Yeah, well, Welcome to Web 2.0.
I'm tired of every site making JavaScript mandatory to render what is essentially a static website. But apparently basic and minimal static HTML is too complicated /s.
Download/obtain hugo through your favorite source, mine was from nixpkgs.
then run hugo serve and you'll have a website. That's it, no dependency to deal with.
I'm not a web designer/programmer. I'm literally ripping appart the sample page from the gcds-components, loading the JS from their CDN, and breaking hugo templating engine.... a lot.
Everything? Here's what I've tried, or know I'll want in this:
- Breadcrumb using .Ancestors
- Mermaid rendering
- Code block (with code highlighter would be nice)
- Data table (it's listed as coming soon)