Anyone have suggestions for a good Rust template engine? (programming.dev)

submitted 1 year ago by dukk@programming.dev to c/rust@programming.dev

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I'm running a server-side-rendered web server using Actix Web. Any suggestions for a client? All I really need is something fast and that I can use without breaking my neck (don't need any fancy VDOM, trying to ship minimal JS).

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[-] ShittyKopper@lemmy.w.on-t.work 1 points 1 year ago

I came here to ask a similar question so I may as well throw it into the comments of this one just to make sure I don't end up cluttering the community.

In my case though, I have a few extra requirements the existing answers can't handle:

It needs to be re-compiled/interpreted at runtime
It should be able to handle reasonably untrustworthy input (not as in completely untrustworthy, but if someone makes a typo it shouldn't end up escalating into a security issue)

[-] dukk@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

I think all of these can be recompiled at runtime.

Askama seems to be a popular and mature option here. Yew is also pretty popular here, uses a VDOM and provides a powerful front end (great for SPAs) I’m most likely going to go with tide-jsx, it’s like HTML but it supports Rust expressions thru a macro, which is exactly what I need. Liquid is also pretty secure, so that’s an option.

Askama and Yew are pretty mature, so they probably have reasonable security. I would check their docs, however.

[-] ShittyKopper@lemmy.w.on-t.work 2 points 1 year ago

Perhaps "recompilation" wasn't the right word to use there.

My goal is to let people customize the templates that will end up building the pages, either from the app itself or through a companion panel app of sorts. This excludes anything that compiles down to native code, so it must be something interpreted at runtime.