GSoC '20 Report | Sachin Chopra | Inclusive Design Institute | "Migrate FLOE & Fluid Project websites to 11ty"
Introduction
The Google summer of code program has been a great and fun learning experience to me over the past months,
during which I migrated the FLOE and Fluid Project websites to 11ty; a Javascript based modern static site generator. The FLOE Project site was using static, hand-coded HTML, while the Fluid Project site was built using DocPad. Even though hand-coded websites provide greater flexibility and customization options, it becomes tougher to update each HTML page as the site grows and changes are made. Docpad hasn’t been maintained since 2014. There are currently no active maintainers and its servers were taken down in 2018. There are plenty of bug reports due to its incompatibility with the newer version of ‘things’. Therefore we need to migrate both FLOE project and fluid project websites to a modern and well maintained Static Site Generator (as most of the content is sta