Qqwy
Hi there! The recent developments w.r.t. Surface and HEEx are very cool!
One thing that would be the cherry on top, would be an indentation-based templating language that compiles down to one of these. If you no longer need to write closing tags, HTML (and any similar XML-like languages) can be expressed much more concisely (without any loss of expressivity).
As an example, you might look at Haml which is a Ruby-based variant (emitting ERb – Embedded Ruby files) of such a language. In Elixir there does exist Calliope which is an Haml parser. Unfortunately, Calliope has been abandoned since 2015.
I would love to write or collaborate on a templating engine like this.
However, where to start? What would be the most appropriate way to create a templating engine that builds on top of HEEx/LEEx/EEx(/Surface)?
I guess the question can be split up as:
- How to create a templating engine which can be recognized both from a sigil and from a new file extension?
- How to wrap (H/L)EEx inside another templating engine?
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joaoevangelista
You might want to check out Slime, also with support for phoenix e and liveview, they have pretty advanced in terms of support, maybe is a good go to for contributions or inspiration
TwistingTwists
Two leads.
https://mobile.twitter.com/josevalim/status/1437786780464463875
Basically , soon
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Formatter for HEEx templates
zimt28
You could try Temple which allows you to write your templates in Elixir.
Qqwy
Thank you very much for your responses!
Slime fits perfect for my use-case. Very nice to see that such a mature library already exists.
I will use it, and focus contributions there if needed.
silverdr
I was also happy to find it some time ago and also opted for using it (it’s really hard PITA to get back once you got used to haml/slime) in a non-trivial project. Alas, it seems to become abandonware just like all other (?) After kludging around for last two versions of Phoenix, I feel like the need to waste time again and again is no longer worth it. Unless somebody knows a current, maintained fork or another maintained option I’ll end up rewriting lots of
slimetemplates back into[h]eexAny other suggestions?
UPDATE: found a fork working with phx 1.7
https://github.com/populimited/phoenix_slime
jamieorc
Replying here because I’m not allowed yet to create a topic in the Phoenix Forum (dunno why–new here).
I’m using Slim(e) for views as I work through the Phoenix on Rails tutorial. I’ve come to the section on using core component functions and I can not figure out the correct syntax for a component like link which has an inner_block. I’ve searched the web, the docs, looked at the source code for link, but no love so far.
Any help appreciated!
LostKobrakai
Nobody can post to top level categories. They’re only there to aggregate topics of their subcategories.
hubertlepicki
I don’t know if that works at all. The new Phoenix 1.7 is using HEEX template language and I suspect this may not be working with either LiveView or Phoenix.Components that use ~H sigil.
I was very happily using Slime too but with the LiveView/HEEX changes now being the default, and also with the formatter that formats HEEX and editors having good support for the syntax, I decided to stop using it. Much people did the same I think.
jamieorc
OK. Thanks!
smathy
Yep, I did precisely the same for the same reasons. I do still miss the elegance of auto-closing tags