Have a link?
Crowdhailer
Creator of Raxx
josevalim
Creator of Elixir
Plugs are not really compile time. The Plug.Builder DSL is compile-time but not Plug themselves. For example, if you need to dynamically initialize a Plug, you can easily invoke that Plug at runtime. If you want to have a builder that works fully at runtime, that should be possible too.
EDIT: Although we should probably move this discussion elsewhere so we don’t sidetrack the Raxx discussion.
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tmbb
It’s an experimental library I’m writing. You can find a description (and link to the repo here). But on further thought, It might be too tailored to Plug applications. But the main template compiler could be used with Raxx. I’ll look into it when I’ve completed the Phoenix implementation.
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Crowdhailer
Creator of Raxx
@tmbb It looks interesting. I need to spend some more time to dive in to the entirety of that thread I think.
(although Vampyre depends on
phoneix_htmlfor some utilities for escaping HTML and other things).
I don’t know if GitHub - CrowdHailer/eex_html: Extension to Embedded Elixir (EEx), that allows content to be safely embedded into HTML. · GitHub might be of use to use. I pulled out some general HTML things there because I was only using a fraction of phoenix_html.
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tmbb
The main optimization is the fact that I turn some complex HTML widgets into macros that are aggressively optimized at compile-time. You don’t seem to have any HTML helpers, so speed benefits might be minimal… For a highly dynamic template, like one that uses form_for/4 I get impressive speed benefits, but if the “Raxx way” is to write all your HTML explicitly (no HTML helpers), then there might be no benefits.
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Crowdhailer
Creator of Raxx
No I just meant that EExHTML might be a useful dependency, instead of phoenix_html, as it contains just the HTML utilities. Are you relying on phoenix_html’s implementation of form_for?
There is no “Raxx way”. But in my current work I don’t make much use of form helpers
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Crowdhailer
Creator of Raxx
Middleware added, supports compile-time or run-time configuration
Raxx now contains the following:
- Raxx.Middleware behaviour for implementing middleware
- Raxx.Stack composing middleware and servers/controllers/actions
- Raxx.Router apply middleware to specific routes in an application
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