On: Show HN: Boxwood – simple templating engine for JavaScript, in JavaScript

[martinbaun]

Sweet, I have been looking into Node for my Python SSR webapps, but Pug and Handlebars are just not cutting it. Jinja templating language is just soooo good.

This looks like what I wanted in a templating language

[lf-non → martinbaun]

Try edge: https://edgejs.dev/

It is mature and feature rich. I like that the expressions can be plain js and it is not coupled with html.

[saurabh → lf-non]

We are using this as a standalone templating engine. It's easy, fast and has good error reporting. This is the main templating engine of AdonisJS.

[hombre_fatal → martinbaun]

Fwiw, you can use JSX without React.

Another project on the HN homepage at the moment happens to do this: https://www.val.town/v/maxm/staticChess

    const { renderToString } = require('react-dom/server')

    renderToString(<ul>{[1, 2, 3].map(n => <li>{n}</ul>)}</div>)

Granted, you have to configure it so that JSX is allowed in your JS. For example, by running your code as `tsx server.js`, but I find it so much better than Pug/Nunjucks of yore that it makes up for that downside.

[supriyo-biswas → martinbaun]

There’s https://mozilla.github.io/nunjucks/ although it hasn’t been maintained for quite some time.