Looking for an HTML preprocessor
I will be honest, I assumed this would be super easy to find, but alas it is not. What I am effectively looking for is an HTML preprocessor to take something that is less verbose than HTML and give me HTML, because writing HTML by hand is a pain. I don’t want dynamic pages (so I am not interested in variables or for loops or any of that stuff), and I don’t want to need to spin up a whole JavaScript script just to compile some static pages (looking at you Pug).
Is there any tool where I can have
foo.ext and just do compile foo.ext >foo.html?12 Replies
Also I am pretty opposed to something like Markdown, because I want to have actual control over the HTML structure
personally, I'd go for SvelteKit for most things. But Astro is a good option these days too.
I use Pug quite often for simple stuff but I used to use it lots more and its template is nice imo. the way it does blocks and extends is 🔥
I've heard good things about Nunjucks too.
https://pugjs.org/api/getting-started.html
https://mozilla.github.io/nunjucks/
Svelte template syntax is very similar to Handlebars I think 🤔
oh funny also next time maybe drop this kinda post in #discussions I thought that is were I was looking xD
I don’t want dynamic pages (so I am not interested in variables or for loops or any of that stuff), and I don’t want to need to spin up a whole JavaScript script just to compile some static pages (looking at you Pug).I guess if I wasn’t so clear, I want something that makes writing HTML easier (like Pug), but without the stupid need to have to write a JavaScript compilation script and stuff
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I am working on my own thing for this, but I’ve been slacking a good bit
You will need to use a preprocessor.. You can look at Gulp and stuff but imo that is just way worse than using npm/bundlers
Either way you need the libs to do it and a watch script or something else looking at the files to compile
I don’t really need a watch script and stuff
I basically want to just write HTML by hand, but hate HTML syntax
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I gave you 3 great options xD
Pug life is very nice 😉
I mean or just learn to use VIM motions (tags work well with it) and 
https://docs.emmet.io/cheat-sheet/
https://docs.emmet.io/cheat-sheet/I mean I’d like to think my Vim-fu is very good
and I’ve got something similar to emmet going for me on emacs
but html still sucks to touch, who designed this garbage 
“The essence of XML is this: the problem it solves is not hard, and it does not solve the problem well.” — Phil Wadler
I mean it is what it is mate
honestly if your vim-fu is good you should be using some cit cat dit dat ci" ysat
% around
xD
Really not that bad to work with imo but then again like HTML >.>;;
again though if I don't wanna work with html syntax I use pug (like making quick codepens, even though I have some limited vim motions there)