WebUI - Development Details

[BanjoFox]

This is item 4, in the Hackers Guide to Aardwolf

Most of the UI development (at least for now) can be done independently of the Rust/backend development. In fact a separate repository has been created for any individual that would like to focus on HTML/CSS/Front-end type activities (we have non-technical ones too ;D trust me).
The aardwolf-interface repository is where that work is being tracked (mostly). It is very likely that this repository will remain as a permanent project fixture. Even as features are ported over to the main repository it will still be nice to have a place for people to test layouts.

/templates -- is where the bulk of the Tera-syntax HTML lives. Please feel free to use filler-text for testing layouts.
/web -- is where the static assets should reside.

Hopefully the sub-folders are self-explanitory...(unlikely x.X, but will fix later)

Tera Syntax (40,000-foot-view)

Reusable text that goes into the Language/translation files looks like this:
'''{{ variable_name }}'''

Templates can be included as part of another page (think PHP include()) as such:

'''{% block file_name %}{% endblock file_name %}'''
Where file_name is the actual name of the *.html.tera file. File paths are not required (IIRC) because Rocket will find them.
You can also have "fallback" html for those times when a block becomes broken:

'''
{% block new_post %}

This will render even if "new_post" will not!

{% endblock new_post %} '''

Tera documentation is found here:
Tera Templates

[BanjoFox]

This is a stale issue (wontfix)