Just recently joined discourse. When browsing from mobile Chrome, I could just add it to my home screen and from there on it acts as a standalone app. That is, the link doesn’t open up in a browser but in its own Chrome window. So is this the concept behind PWA (progressive web app)?
Also, the site is overall very slick and smooth. Can I know frontend stack?
discourse.redox-os.org is build with discourse.
It isn’t a PWA, because it doesn’t work without internet connection.
Quote from discourse README:
Built With
- Ruby on Rails — Our back end API is a Rails app. It responds to requests RESTfully in JSON.
- Ember.js — Our front end is an Ember.js app that communicates with the Rails API.
- PostgreSQL — Our main data store is in Postgres.
- Redis — We use Redis as a cache and for transient data.
Plus lots of Ruby Gems, a complete list of which is at /master/Gemfile.
Ah thanks. And the stack is cool, typical web stack, nothing fancy.
No idea about discourse though. Will learn about it.
Hopefully back-end will one day run on rust 