Yesterday, I tested the Minow framework with another theme that I personally like because of simplicity and card-layout – Shaken Grid. As earlier, I am not the owner or maintainer of the theme, I just ported it to Minow.

I did this experiment to identify theme-requirements early (lean methodology) with minimum efforts and resources.

The result is some changes in the Minow Engine to serve images, CSS and JavaScript content with appropriate content-type from the template folder noting that the actual theme template should not be accessible directly (read: raw).

To summarize what’s available as of now is:

• Theme, with templates based on Freemarker.
  As of now, the choice of template is based on query string (as PoC). Eventually, it will be configurable.
• Localization, with locales based on ISO-639 and ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes.

And the results are available at:

• Theme: Shaken-Grid, Locale: hi
• Theme: Shaken-Grid, Locale: default
• Theme: Default, Locale: hi
• Theme: Default, Locale: default

Screenshot of what’s working: