dominate

I just ported some code from Python to Rust, and spent a good few days pouring over the template/DOM ecosystem. What I really wanted was a Rust version of Python's Dominate library, which allows you to write your DOM nodes as regular objects and render the tree with nice (locally controllable) indentation. I didn't want templates, and I wanted something that allowed me to control indentation, leave comments in the HTML, and write code as code. I ended up spending a week implementing something similar to Dominate in Rust. https://github.com/Knio/dominate

It feels weird at the beginning, but after a bit of practice I found it pretty nice to write HTML in Python. Here is an example of a HTML page layout written with the DOMinate [1] library for example, in a "JSX-like" way: https://github.com/olivierphi/zakuchess/blob/main/src/apps/w... It may hurt your eyes at first sight, for sure... But similarly to technologies like Tailwind CSS, it's mostly a matter of getting used to it - and after a while it end ups feeling very natural to use :-) 1: https://github.com/Knio/dominate#readme

Pretty much how https://github.com/Knio/dominate does it, but no context variable binding (otherwise gets messy with lots of nesting)

You're conflating two things, dynamically creating HTML is great and lets you avoid JS in a lot of cases. It's whether you should treat your HTML document as the tree of nodes that it is in your programming language or treat it like a string. https://github.com/Knio/dominate is a Python lib that implements this principal.

I feel you, however I also love https://github.com/Knio/dominate - a Python library to generate HTML. Generating HTML always felt awkward for me in many languages. From PHP where you sprinkle PHP between HTML or HTML between PHP, to frameworks in various languages where you populate variables and HTML is magically generated. Somewhere in between there are template languages. "Dominate" uses Python itself as the template language - this means there never is that "disconnect" where you have to validate your output, neither is it that disconnect coming from generators, nor do you have to learn and use a separate template language. Dominate can look like this: return hr(), p( a( 'Start', href = '/start' ), style = 'text-align: center;' ) If the Python is valid, so is the HTML. For me i