Using #htmx in my apps has let me turn the "no logic in HTML templates" all the way up to 11.
I am now very aware (and suspicious) of any logic being evaluated, or even things like string concatenation, being done in HTML templates.
I may have to write a tool to warn me (or fail a test!) if I start using th:if, th:unless, or anything that looks like a method call in my Thymeleaf templates.
Part of the inspiration was also removing tokenized parsing of HTML. So, instead of “get PHP out HTML” it was “get HTML out of PHP” - it’s basically just string concatenation. lol
Very little code (a few hundred lines), and should be easy to port without becoming a full-blown project. A stable and complete build. I haven’t needed to tinker with it for years.
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