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Robert Catto-Smith
3,157 PointsWhat languages go into making a website like treehouse?
How does the treehouse website work.
I'm mainly interested in the backend, user profile management, login signup, associated achievements, tasks completed etc?
A point in the right direction would be much appreciated :)
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Konrad Pilch
2,435 PointsHi , It's primarily Ruby on Rails. Per Github, Ruby, HTML/CSS Foundation Zurb framework, JavaScript, CoffeeScript, and probably something else too.
Im sure you can do the same in PHP and code it all your self but if will take more time so for the layout they used a framework to not waste time probably.
PHP and Ruby on Rails, are basicaly back end languages, im sure you can do exactly the same thing. But this and this has its own cons and pros.
Konrad Pilch
2,435 PointsKonrad Pilch
2,435 PointsOh, and it might use plugins too as well as develop thier own plugins . Though, treehouse is also well, i would say top professionals have this site so i believe their site is like 100% fast etc.. good stats. Instead if we do it, we migtt make it 50% slower or even 100% slower. I dont know about them, but maybe they did even delee some unused CSS from the framework which takes , i believe skill too.
I wonder how much time and planning did they spend making it . And who did it .