Merge pull request #2389 from dotty-staging/add-template-projects-docs

Add documentation on the dotty g8 templates

Author: felixmulder

README.md

@@ -8,9 +8,13 @@ Dotty
 * [FAQ](http://dotty.epfl.ch/#why-dotty)
 * [Mailing list](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/dotty-internals)
 
+Try it out
+==========
+To try it in your project see also the [Getting Started User Guide](http://dotty.epfl.ch/#getting-started).
+
 How to Contribute
 =================
-* [Getting Started](http://dotty.epfl.ch/docs/contributing/getting-started.html)
+* [Getting Started as Contributor](http://dotty.epfl.ch/docs/contributing/getting-started.html)
 * [Awesome Error Messages](http://scala-lang.org/blog/2016/10/14/dotty-errors.html)
 * [Issues](https://github.com/lampepfl/dotty/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22help+wanted%22)
 

docs/_includes/getting-started.html

@@ -1,9 +1,20 @@
-<div class="page white">
-    <div class="centered" style="padding-top: 32px">
-        <h1 id="getting-started">Getting Started</h1>
-        <p>
-            See the <a href="https://github.com/lampepfl/dotty-example-project">example project</a>.
-        </p>
+<div class="page blue">
+    <div class="centered questions">
+
+        <h1 id="getting-started">Try Dotty</h1>
+        <p>Try it in your browser with <a href="https://scastie.scala-lang.org/">Scastie</a> by changing the target to Dotty in the Build Settings.</p>
+
+
+        <h1 id="getting-started-with-a-project">Create a Dotty Project</h1>
+        <p>The fastest way to create a new project in Dotty is using <a href="http://www.scala-sbt.org/">sbt (0.13.15+)</a>.</p>
+
+        <p>Create a Dotty project:</p>
+        <pre class="sourceCode bright"><code>sbt new <a href="https://github.com/lampepfl/dotty.g8">lampepfl/dotty.g8</a></code></pre>
+
+        <p>Or a Dotty project that cross compiles with Scala 2:</p>
+        <pre class="sourceCode bright"><code>sbt new <a href="https://github.com/lampepfl/dotty-cross.g8">lampepfl/dotty-cross.g8</a></code></pre>
+
+        <p>For documentation see the <a href="https://github.com/lampepfl/dotty-example-project">Dotty Example Project</a>.</p>
+
     </div>
 </div>
-

docs/_includes/logo-page.html

@@ -1,6 +1,11 @@
 <div class="page red exactly-one-page">
     <div id="header">
         <nav class="nav nav-pills">
+            <li class="nav-item">
+                <a class="nav-link" href="#getting-started">
+                    Try it now
+                </a>
+            </li>
             <li class="nav-item">
                 <a class="nav-link" href="#why-dotty">
                     FAQ

docs/docs/usage/sbt-projects.md

@@ -3,4 +3,4 @@ layout: doc-page
 title: "Using Dotty with sbt"
 ---
 
-See the [example project](https://github.com/lampepfl/dotty-example-project).
+To try it in your project see the [Getting Started User Guide](http://dotty.epfl.ch/#getting-started).

docs/index.html

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 ---
 <div id="content">
     {% include logo-page.html %}
-    {% include faq.html %}
-    {% include features.html %}
     {% include getting-started.html %}
+    {% include features.html %}
+    {% include faq.html %}
 </div>