A Volto story:
building a website by prototyping
Nicola Zambello
Nicola Zambello
Frontend developer @ RedTurtle
@nicolazambello
nzambello
Frontend developer. Advocate of privacy and social rights. Pilot.
@pilotnicola
A developer using python with python
A common story
- A Frontend Dev
- A side project
- No time
Let's try Volto!
π€
So...
Pros and cons
- Opportunity to try new stuff
- Cool UI React-based
- Continuously updating
- Using Plone as CMS
- No experience with it
- No clear idea on estimating
- Continously updating/changing
- Docs
Expectations
- Simple and small website
- No UI wireframes and simple design
- Plone users management and security π
npx create-volto-app
...and it's done!
Contents
Next:
It's styling time!
Add custom tiles if needed
blocks
Thoughts
- Nice dev experience
- Pastanaga/Semantic is a good base
- Semantic UI theming engine
- Editors UX
- Plone CMS, with users management and security
- Easy to deploy with pm2
- Lean process by prototyping and iterations
So the meaning of life is having fun
ΜΆ Linus Torvalds
Grazie!
A Volto story: building a website by prototyping Nicola Zambello