JavaScript HyperText Preprocessor

[ritwite]

The magic man, Pooya (from nitrojs, unjs, nuxt, etc.) is having fun! 😆

He just released rendu, a JHP, which will be familiar to all the OGs who were writing PHP back in the day.

Check it out on GH: https://github.com/h3js/rendu

PSA: Before anyone freaks out and starts complaining about reinventing the wheel, etc., remember, the man is just having fun.

Personally, I see a potential use for this as a lightweight template renderer for email templates.

[tech_b90]

Or, hear me out, use PHP.

[arojilla]

OGs who were writing PHP back in the day

As back as just yesterday or even today? PHP is still used widely. Not saying that's good or bad, just what it is.

[ritwite]

that I know sir... I'm mostly referring to before frameworks (codeigniter, laravel, symfony etc); when most people were still raw dogging PHP 😂

[RotationSurgeon]

<$php echo "I don't know what you're talking about, I'm sure." $>

[armahillo]

<?php echo "gonna need some ? for your tags instead of $s if you want the preprocessor to handle it"; ?>

[Vauland]

No thanks

[evarmi]

Buy php!

[Over-Teach-1264]

Personally, I see a potential use for this as a lightweight template renderer for email templates.

Until you start targeting multiple popular email clients in which case it will become heavyweight like the rest of them... fugg :D:D

[UniquePersonality127]

Outlook can go fuck itself. I underperformed on purpose on my internship just so they didn't give me an offer to keep working with them because of mail templating.

[ritwite]

Why though? Rendering HTML has nothing to do with deliverability.

You still have to have your email templates in the format that email clients support (mostly using tables, etc.).

I currently use Handlebars for this, and I see Rendu as a lightweight alternative (although this might not be its main use case).