I’m running a server-side-rendered web server using Actix Web. Any suggestions for a client? All I really need is something fast and that I can use without breaking my neck (don’t need any fancy VDOM, trying to ship minimal JS).

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      Can’t beat askama. There are other Jinja-like templates but askama has best-in-class performance and compile time safety.

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      Is there any way to track values without a struct? Or in my specific case, I’m using a struct, but most of the values are in an Option<String>.

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    I’ve been using tide-jsx, but I’m also using tide (not actix). Everything renders to a String, so it would technically be compatible with any web framework.

    I would love to see what other people suggest for Actix since I wanted to use that instead of Tide, but I also didn’t know where to find a crate like tide-jsx. https://crates.io/crates/tide-jsx

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    i have used the handlebars crate, and it is great for really simple templating. it is extensible with ‘helpers’, but imo a bit annoying for more complex use.

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    My go to for static content is astro.js. It gives a really nice developer experience that is really just writing HTML but with the quality of life of reusable “components”, all with 0 JS by default.

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      Ultimately, I ended up using Astro, Rust was giving me too much pain for no tangible gain.

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    I came here to ask a similar question so I may as well throw it into the comments of this one just to make sure I don’t end up cluttering the community.

    In my case though, I have a few extra requirements the existing answers can’t handle:

    1. It needs to be re-compiled/interpreted at runtime
    2. It should be able to handle reasonably untrustworthy input (not as in completely untrustworthy, but if someone makes a typo it shouldn’t end up escalating into a security issue)
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      I think all of these can be recompiled at runtime.

      Askama seems to be a popular and mature option here. Yew is also pretty popular here, uses a VDOM and provides a powerful front end (great for SPAs) I’m most likely going to go with tide-jsx, it’s like HTML but it supports Rust expressions thru a macro, which is exactly what I need. Liquid is also pretty secure, so that’s an option.

      Askama and Yew are pretty mature, so they probably have reasonable security. I would check their docs, however.

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        Perhaps “recompilation” wasn’t the right word to use there.

        My goal is to let people customize the templates that will end up building the pages, either from the app itself or through a companion panel app of sorts. This excludes anything that compiles down to native code, so it must be something interpreted at runtime.

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          Maybe just store the template in a file, read it, and format with the strfmt library?