Announcing Wardrobe
This site has always been my own little personal playground. I am constantly changing the design, the platform, and just experimenting.
Over the past few weeks I started building a brand new backend that I named Wardrobe. This was built from the ground up using Laravel 4, and Backbone.js with Marionette for the admin. The main goal was to create something minimal and simple to use.
Features
Even though it is minimal it still includes what I feel as the most critical features.
- Content
- Tagging
- Post Slugs
- Post Scheduling
- Post active/draft
Even though these are core features I only think content is a priority so everthing is hidden away but still quickly editable via the content toolbar.
Technologies
Because Laravel is awesome and very flexible I used that for the backend. The administration area is built using Backbone and Marionette to make everything feel super fast.
I have the luxury of being friends with the author Taylor so he made sure the backend was architecturally pure using service providers. Currently the backend only supports content stored in a database but because of the service providers swapping this out for flat files or some other service will be very easy.
I have used flat files with Jekyll and Statamic in the past but at the end of the day a database is so much easier to work with and I didn’t want to force a square peg in a round hole. 🙂
All the administration is written using CoffeeScript and follows a lot of the same principles as Brian Mann covers in his BackboneRails tutorials. I then use grunt to compile and concat everything.