How do you do HTML include files? Is there a generally accepted, conventional method?

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npm + Node.js + Express + ejs.

• html-include-element

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  Easily include external HTML into your pages.

This is what's html-include-element does. Many other libs do that. It works pretty well, as far as I can see in my hobby project, but you've got to be cautious with the imported html elements lifecycle, which is not tied to the events of the main window.

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• vite

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Granted, for simple apps it doesn’t make sense so make your user download a 200kb JS file to use a todo list app. That is when I would consider vanillaJS an option. If you’re interested, vite is a command line tool which makes setting up vanillaJS projects super simple, I personally use it all the time.

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Another option which I only recently came across is a framework called svelte. Unlike React, there’s no client side runtime. Svelte compiles your app to vanillaJS before you deploy it, so you get the speed benefits of vanillaJS, but also the benefits of using a framework (components, reactive state, modularity etc).

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