dream-html

Type-safe markup rendering, form validation, and routing for OCaml Dream web framework

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Type-safe markup rendering, form validation, and routing for OCaml Dream web framework

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Nowadays I highly recommend HTML embedding libraries directly in the programming language. E.g. ScalaTags https://com-lihaoyi.github.io/scalatags/ or (my own)…

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yawaramin·Jun 21, 2024

htmx is a JavaScript library which interprets a set of HTML attributes and JavaScript events. It doesn't have anything to do with static typing. However, it's fairly easy to add a statically-typed layer on top of it eg https://github.com/yawaramin/dream-html

In Hypermedia Systems

yawaramin·May 22, 2024

This is exactly why I always recommend that htmx is best used not with a traditional templating engine, but with an HTML generation library embedded directly in your favourite programming language. Eg if you use Python there is https://htpy.dev/ - and many others in other languages. What these all do is they allow using the full power of your programming language to create component-like abstractions much like you would in React. I show an example of this with my own library: https://github.com/yawaramin/dream-html/tree/todoapp/app

In Ask HN: Why do you all think that Htmx is such a recent development?

todsacerdoti·Apr 30, 2024Submission

Dream-HTML – render HTML, SVG, MathML, Htmx markup from OCaml

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yawaramin·Apr 25, 2024

There is some truth to this. Imho the next level of htmx is unlocked when you componentize everything like a React app...but with nested routes corresponding to nested components like a Remix app...and using an HTML generation DSL embedded directly in your language, so HTML becomes a first-class citizen of your language's constructs, rather than a templated afterthought. I have a demo of this: https://github.com/yawaramin/dream-html/tree/todoapp/app

In A Response to "Have Single-Page Apps Ruined the Web?" (2021)