Brainstorm: How best to show the benefits of TurboGraft

[qq99]

Our example app is a godsend for local testing, but I don't think it will have a broad appeal. We need something pretty!

Perhaps we should make a few simple pretty .html pages calling TurboGraft functions and put it up on a demo site

[qq99]

Probably best is to use gh-pages branch with a main index.html and a few tiny html partials that show the various types of operations

[tylermercier]

It would be ideal if we could just deploy the example app onto heroku and link to a Demo. Then we don't need to maintain two code bases.

[qq99]

$1VPS from atlantic.net? is that cheaper than heroku?

[tylermercier]

heroku would be free, we would only need one dyno. Figuring out the deploy for a nested rails app would be the only cost.

[qq99]

Oh touché

[patrickdonovan]

Doesn't shopify have a herkou account? I think some things like askify are hosted there. But yeah one dyno would probably fine most of the time.

[pushrax]

Shopify's Heroku account is already too full (we keep hitting the limit). Making another would be better.

[gelkelp]

Is there a particular example we'd like to build, or just do a general showcase of the features? I can help out with this so that I can ramp up on the tech before I write about it on the blog.

[qq99]

I was thinking we'd host the example app inside this repo since it's both documentation and example simultaneously

However, that's a good question, maybe there's another minimal app we can build that shows a little bit more how we use it effectively in a more realistic use-case

[tylermercier]

@lkrupphunter setup the project and and run ./server to start the local app. That is what we want to host somewhere.

[gelkelp]

I'm going to run with fixing up examples plus some design and branding.

Should we have one main landing page for both of them (Twine + Turbograft) and then have separate examples for both, or should we keep them entirely separate from each other?

[Morganjackson]

@funionnn Are you still planning to create some examples? TurboGraft looks very interesting and I'm trying to compare it with http://intercoolerjs.org/

[gelkelp]

@Morganjackson I added some basic examples to the readme, is there anything else that could be helpful?

[Morganjackson]

@funionnn No nothing specifically, I was just being lazy! I'll have a play around it with it myself.

[gelkelp]

@Morganjackson Cool, if there's anything that's either missing or unclear, feel free to ping me!

[Morganjackson]

@funionnn cheers, will do!