Go over features that create more complexity than they're worth

[caendesilva]

Before releasing v1 I want to make sure the code is stable, and part of this is to ensure the code is easy to maintain. To do this I want to reduce undue complexity. I think Hyde as it is now should focus on the 80% use case. Features can always be brought back if there is demand but for now I want to keep things very light.

Currently considering removing the authors.yml file. I don't think that many Hyde projects as of now will use that many authors, so I think those defaults can defined in the main config file and having it for a single author as having a single-purpose yml file adds more complexity than it's IMO worth at this point in time.

[caendesilva]

I think I will remove the "Asset Locations and Versions" section in the config.

Disabling the styles is easy to do in the Blade views, and if you're needing to change styles, you probably need to update Blade views which means that you obviously know how to do that and you can just update the blade view.

[caendesilva]

I might move the "Footer Text" setting to a Markdown/Blade include in an _includes directory

[caendesilva]

A nice way to define authors would be with a helper facade in the config. Here's an example idea:

'authors' => [
    new Author([
        'username' => 'mr_hyde',
        'name' => 'Mr Hyde',
        'website' => 'hydephp.com',
    ]),
    
    new Author([
        'username' => 'ms_hyde',
        'name' => 'Miss Hyde',
    ]),
];

This has the added benefit of ensuring all Authors have a username as the schema will be right in the config which I really like.

[caendesilva]

I really like the validators, but they add an extra dependency. And since they are so simple it should be fast and easy to write a custom implementation.

[caendesilva]

I also don't think we need the AppServiceProvider.

[caendesilva]

Am also considering handling the creation of required directories in the app bootstrapping file

Edit: Or we just skip this all together and handle it with .gitkeeps

[caendesilva]

Closing to handle further discussion in hydephp/develop#4