Provide some binary that allows to operate on raw files like markdown (#1) or maybe even html, tho composing html might get hard with raw files because of embedded rust.

Sometimes it's needed to only return something in the if-case, which leads to quite a few else { "" } or else { String::new() }, so a special syntax for that might be nice, or a simple macro maybe

So why not just use Strings directly and format! them for templating, that's basically what the html! macro does anyway, right?

Actually, yes, that's true. I guess the only real advantage of the html! macro is that it does syntax checking of the provided html and mabye it's nicer to directly write html instead of fiddling with strings. 😅

Something like

href={%path "uwu" / &some_var / "owo" %}

or

href={%path ["uwu", &some_var, "owo"] %}

or

href={%path "uwu/{&some_var}/owo" %} (this would probably get complicated)

which makes sure to internally correctly escape the path with html_escape::encode_text or html_escape::encode_double_quoted_attribute

Might also work to special-case the occurence of href and then do something special, e.g.

href="uwu/{&some_var}/owo"

could automagically do the right thing - tho I think that's way to implicit/hidden.

Would be nice to rustfmt code in arbitrary rust {} blocks. Might be possible with https://docs.rs/rustfmt/0.10.0/rustfmt/fn.format_input.html but would require rewriting the macro callsite file, which sounds scary.

Related

• rust-lang/rustfmt#3434
• yewstack/yew#1446

Would be nice to be able to parse and embed existing markdown files

Provide some default html/css theme, because why not