template engines are really cool
@noiob oh, yeah! are there any in particular you like..?
@thingywott I haven't used a lot of them and they all seem to use the same syntax, which is part of why they're cool
I've used Tera as a part of Zola and now twig, in php (without symfony)
@noiob oh yeah, they do seem to largely have similar ideas!
it's hard to say which i prefer the most. maybe liquid? (that's the thing jekyll uses, and you can pipe output between functions)
{{ user.name | capitalize | prepend: "Hello " }}
most of the stuff i've used recently is jsp with jstl, though jstl just tries to replace the code parts of the templates into tags that are interpreted serverside
<c:forEach var="thing" items="${bean.things}">
${thing.field}
</c:forEach>
@thingywott I didn't do anything too complex, I just love how readable and nice it makes the templates as opposed to piecing together the html manually in php
@thingywott that's how I learnt to do things, reading programming books for kids from the city library
my original code had everything in one file and people looked at it and went "ah yes, the oldschool way :D"
@noiob hee. that is, indeed the oldschool way
i used to do that too
@thingywott it works!
@thingywott and honestly for a small project it's okay… it wasn't too hard to move to the "proper" way afterwards anyways
@thingywott but I'm super happy about how much I'm learning
@noiob oh yeah, manually building html without templating is a nightmare and a half =w=