Xtemplate Alternatives

xtemplate reviews and mentions

• ETag and HTTP Caching
  4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Apr 2024

  I've also been dissatisfied with http caching not utilizing content hashes enough. If you're using server side templating one issue is that it's not efficient to calculate the hash while you're running the template, it would need to be precalculated to be efficient enough to use.

  So I wrote https://github.com/infogulch/xtemplate to scan all assets at startup to precalculate the hash for templates that use it, and if a request comes in with a query parameter ?hash=sha384-xyz and it matches then it gives it a 1 year immutable Cache-Control header automatically. If a file x.ext has a matching x.ext.gz/x.ext.zst/x.ext.br file then (after hashing the content to make sure it matches) client requests that support it are sent a compressed version streamed directly from disk with sendfile2. I call this "Optimal asset serving" (a bit bold perhaps).

• Show HN: XRss: An RSS Reader and web stack demo powered by Htmx
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Sep 2023

  Yes, that would be useful. Basically, what you have in https://github.com/infogulch/caddy-xtemplate/blob/master/tem... - but without Caddy dependencies and with a way to use any router library (I use gorilla/mux).

  I would make the templates library take a callback function for every public template: func(method, path string, template).

  Then the user could add any custom logic to register the route handler and execute the template with any application specific inputs.