htex

hypertext extruder

An experimental tool which acts as:

an HTML-extension to generate hypertext (new set of <!elements>),
a web server to publish static and dynamic content (htex server),
a static site generator like jekyll or hugo (htex gen).

<body>
<!method get>
  <form action="." method="post">
    <input type="email" name="email" placeholder="email">
    <input type="password" name="password" placeholder="password">
    <button type="submit">sign in</button>
  </form>
<!method post>
  Form received: <!data email>
<!method any>
</body>

status

htex is in an experimental phase, its API, CLI, and internals might change in the future. Its syntax is based on htmlex, and old C tool/HTML extension to generate static sites. The way variables (or possibly macros) are get and set (e.g. tags like <!get> and <!set>) are probably to change in the future.

There are some missing parts like:

some control flow elements like <!function>, <!if>, <!for>, etc.
a way to access a database
handle user sessions/cookies,
a real static-blog generator (e.g. jekyll) replacement (list of posts/files, permalinks configuration, tags, categories, etc.).

All this to be designed in a future.