Yeah, it makes writing templates a lot easier. There’s also and issue to add support for temple GitHub - mhanberg/temple: An HTML DSL for Elixir and Phoenix · GitHub which I didn’t know of until a couple of weeks ago but looks awesome
gabrielpoca
ityonemo
wow, temple is beautiful. I would love to write a server-side virtual-dom thing using the temple DSL, but I don’t have the time 
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yukster
Any plans for theme support? The thing that keeps me on Jekyll is there are a ton of drop-in themes.
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gabrielpoca
I had no idea that Jekyll had those, and I love the idea: hex packages are just themes for Still sounds great. I can think of a couple of ways to make it work, and I think that as we move forward, we’ll reach a point where adding that will be straightforward. But I’m not there yet, so I don’t think support for themes will be coming any time soon unless someone else picks it up.
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Exadra37
Hugo Static Site generator also have tons of them:
Let’s hope that some gets interested in adding support for themes, because they are important to get Still to the place it deserves 
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gabrielpoca
Hello!
There isn’t a new version out yet, but I thought it could be interesting to write an update. We addressed some minor bugs and did some small refactors these past weeks, and there’s a huge change coming soon. If you tried Still, you might have noticed that if you’re calling Elixir modules in the templates (HTML, EEx, Slime, etc), they are not recompiled automatically. So when you change your Elixir module, you had to run “recompile” in iex and then “touch” the template to recompile the page. This experience wasn’t good, and the plan was to have something like what you get in Phoenix, where the Elixir code is recompiled automatically with the request.
All of this lead to a huge change that’s ongoing in this PR. If you know about how Phoenix does this recompilation mechanism, your input would be valuable. For now, we just copied the minimum amount of code from Pheonix’s implementation, but something may be missing.
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marcin
gabrielpoca
Hello everyone!
Version 0.6.0 with all of the changes I mentioned above:
- everything is faster.
- templates are recompiled on refresh.
- the elixir code is also recompiled on refresh.
- better error handling.
- better configs.
For the following version, we’ll be improving the docs and the examples. It would also be nice to have pre-compiled the templates as Phoenix does, but we need to check if that makes sense in Still, I feel that it doesn’t because we combine soo much stuff for a single template.
Any feedback and bug reports are much welcome!
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mattei
gabrielpoca
Hello! Version 0.6.1 is out which improves runtime memory and performance. We were keeping too much stuff in memory and, in some situations, the dev server could reach 500mb for a small website. That’s now fixed and the dev server is now leaner and faster because of it. In the process, we also changed it so files are served from memory instead of disk. Each file is compiled when it’s asked for, so we already have it in memory. Instead of saving to disk to serve immediately after, we just serve the file and don’t write the disk. It doesn’t look like much, but it’s definitely improving the server’s performance. Next up will be importmaps!
Any feedback or bug reports are welcome!
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