[WIP] Curated projects #272

[Slakah]

In progress #272 .

TODO list:

• Update ruby deps
• Single yaml typelevel project list
• Tidy up styling
• Handle project descriptions which use emojiis (i.e. scala-steward has :robot:)
• Work out what to do with the high profile projects on the homepage
• What's the best way to keep github stars up to date, period building pipeline?
• Add docs around building/usage

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[rossabaker]

Thanks for taking this on. I like the direction. I am so sorry it took so long for me to review this.

Some style suggestions:

• I like the categories. I don't think the descriptions add much beyond the titles. Maybe we could live without those.
• Since we have the star data, we could probably use a star emoji or reuse some badge code somewhere.
• We should make the library titles larger than the library descriptions.
• We have a lot of great logos. It would be neat if ico-repo could be replaced with those. Maybe if we adopted a Typelevel convention of a logo.svg file in a fixed place, the star-scraping script could find those, too. Would give the page some visual pop.

I depend on the Docker container to install all the dependencies. I had a hard time building this, so I opened #280. The one problem I still had was You must use Bundler 2 or greater with this lockfile. I'm not very good with bundler, so I just deleted Gemfile.lock and moved on, but I'm pretty sure there's a better way.

[rossabaker]

We'll need to include catbird from #282.

[rossabaker]

And case-insensitive from #283

[Slakah]

Just to note down an update on where I'm at with this. I mainly lost interest as it was a PITA working with Jekyll, switched focus for the time being, but hope to pick this up again at some point in the not to distant future.

[rossabaker]

If you're struggling with the Ruby dependency management, I have had success with the Docker container. If you're struggling with the Jekyll itself, well, you and me both. In any event, we appreciate it.

[rossabaker]

Further on jekyll: any time I've proposed alternatives to Jekyll on various Typelevel projects, people stand up for how easy it is to deploy on gh-pages. If we were to do a more radical overhaul, we'd need an answer to that.

Paradox has been my favorite static site generator for the JVM (i.e., no extra install), but I think it's more geared toward docs than blogs. I use and like Hugo on some other sites, but there would be CI work, and the syntax is less familiar to people.

But that's all probably discussion for another ticket.