RazorLight VS Thor

Yes, I have used Razor pages in non-website applications before where I needed to load the cshtml templates from a different source. I have written Line of Business apps (think WinForms or WPF) where the reporting spits out HTML with tables and charts. There are a number of similar projects to yours out there which I have used in the past such as RazorLight or RazorMachine.

Your mileage may vary but I've had good luck with the RazorLight library for generating HTML emails from a template with data merged in. Under the hood, it uses the ASP.NET Razor engine for applying a model to a template.

We use https://github.com/toddams/RazorLight in combination with serverless functions.

you could use a razor based engine to generate html based on a view model (your data). take a look at: https://github.com/toddams/RazorLight i use it to generate html emails

Rails has a templating system for generating emails (standard HTML/ERB files). If you're running an ASP.NET Web API (not MVC) the best way of doing that I've found is via Razorlight which you have to set up manually - https://github.com/toddams/RazorLight

With Rails the standard is pretty much Devise or Omniauth (or both) - does everything for you. I've never found anything for ASP like Devise which gives you an entire login system with all the required views/migrations in a couple commands.

I use RazorLight: https://github.com/toddams/RazorLight

Razor Light

Ruby has always been a great general-purpose scripting language and is often used to create command-line utilities. Many of these use the excellent Thor gem to parse command-line options, but there's no escaping one fact: command-line utilities just aren't interesting. Never have been, never will be.

All public methods in the generator will be called one after the other. Private methods will not be called but are available in your public methods like regular Ruby classes.

ruby: http://whatisthor.com

I will add that if you want to develop a CLI tool that gives you various commands that you can run, I would have a look at something like thor to keep it organised and documented. But this is completely unnecessary as a first step - you can simply create a Ruby file that does a thing you want and invoke it directly.

Not to be confused with generator functions (which you might be familiar with from Python or Javascript), Rails generators are custom Thor commands that focus on, well, generating things.

I wanted to provide a command-line interface for the user that was easy to use, and I also wanted to provide the flexibility with the options used to render the animation. After looking around online I found that Thor was a good tool to utilize. It allowed me to easily create a number of options that make this program much more versatile. An example below shows how a user can select which folder the source images are in, as well as what the background and foreground colors should be:

I've used Thor a lot, but it's kind of terrible. It uses a custom non-POSIX-compliant option parser (ex: method_option :list, type: :array -> --list one two three, where as the POSIX way is --list one,two,three or --item one -- item two --item three) and will not error on unknown options or exit with -1 when not enough args are given. If you want a better CLI library, checkout dry-rb, command_kit, or cmdparse.

And Thor might be worth looking at if you have complex scripts: https://github.com/erikhuda/thor