markup 0.1.3

A blazing fast, type-safe template engine for Rust.
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markup.rs

A blazing fast, type-safe template engine for Rust.

markup.rs is a template engine for Rust powered by procedural macros which parses the template at compile time and generates optimal Rust code to render the template at run time. The templates may embed Rust code which is type checked by the Rust compiler enabling full type-safety.

Quick Start

Add the markup crate to your dependencies:

[dependencies]
markup = "0.1"

Define your template using the markup::define! macro:

markup::define! {
    Hello(name: &'static str) {
        {markup::Doctype}
        html {
            head {
                title { "Hello " {name} }
            }
            body {
                p#greeting {
                    "Hello "
                    span.name { {name} }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

Render your template by either:

  1. Writing it to any instance of std::io::Write:

    write!(writer, "{}", Hello { name: "Ferris" });
    
  2. Converting it to a string and using it however you like:

    let string = Hello { name: "Ferris" }.to_string();
    

The above template compiles to:

pub struct Hello {
    pub name: &'static str,
}

impl std::fmt::Display for Hello {
    fn fmt(&self, __writer: &mut std::fmt::Formatter) -> std::fmt::Result {
        use std::fmt::Display;
        let Hello { name } = self;
        markup::Render::render(&(markup::Doctype), __writer)?;
        __writer.write_str("<html><head><title>Hello ")?;
        markup::Render::render(&(name), __writer)?;
        __writer.write_str("</title></head><body><p id=\"greeting\">Hello <span class=\"name\">")?;
        markup::Render::render(&(name), __writer)?;
        __writer.write_str("</span></p></body></html>")?;
        Ok(())
    }
}

Rendering the template produces (manually prettified):

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>Hello Ferris</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <p id="greeting">Hello <span class="name">Ferris</span></p>
  </body>
</html>

Syntax

Define

markup::define! {
    First {
      "First!"
    }
    Second {
      "Second!"
    }
}
println!("{}", First);
println!("{}", Second.to_string());
First!
Second!

Literal Strings and Expressions

markup::define! {
    Hello {
        "Hello,"
        " "
        "world!\n"
        {1 + 2}
        {format!("{}{}", 3, 4)}
        {if true { Some(5) } else { None }}
        {if false { Some(6) } else { None }}
    }
}
println!("{}", Hello {});
Hello, world!
3345

Elements

Normal and Void

markup::define! {
    Hello {
        div
        br;
    }
}
println!("{}", Hello {});
<div></div><br>

id and class shorthands

markup::define! {
    Hello {
        button#go.button."button-blue"
        button#"go-back".{1 + 2}.{2 + 3}
    }
}
println!("{}", Hello {});
<button id="go" class="button button-blue"></button><button id="go-back" class="3 5"></button>

Attributes with and without values

markup::define! {
    Hello {
        div[a = 1, b = "2", c? = true, d? = false, "e-f" = 3, {"g".to_string() + "-h"} = 4, i = None::<i32>, j = Some(5)]
        br[k = 6];
    }
}
println!("{}", Hello {});
<div a="1" b="2" c e-f="3" g-h="4" j="5"></div><br k="6">

Children

markup::define! {
    Hello {
        div[a = 1] {
            "One"
            {0 + 1}
        }
        div {
            "Two"
            {1 + 1}
        }
    }
}
println!("{}", Hello {});
<div a="1">One1</div><div>Two2</div>

Disable Automatic HTML Escaping

markup::define! {
    Hello {
        "<&\">"
        {markup::Raw("<span></span>")}
    }
}
println!("{}", Hello {});
&lt;&amp;&quot;&gt;<span></span>

Arguments

markup::define! {
    Hello(foo: u32, bar: u32, string: String) {
        div {
            {foo + bar}
            {string}
        }
    }
}
println!("{}", Hello { foo: 1, bar: 2, string: String::from("hello") });
<div>3hello</div>
markup::define! {
    Hello<'a, T: std::fmt::Debug, U>(arg: T, arg2: U, str: &'a str) where U: std::fmt::Display {
        div {
            {format!("{:?}", arg)}
            {format!("{}", arg2)}
            {str}
        }
    }
}
println!("{}", Hello { arg: (1, 2), arg2: "arg2", str: "str" });
<div>(1, 2)arg2str</div>

Embed Other Templates

markup::define! {
    Add(a: u32, b: u32) {
        span { {a + b} }
    }
    Hello {
        {Add { a: 1, b: 2 }}
        {Add { a: 3, b: 4 }}
    }
}
println!("{}", Hello {});
<span>3</span><span>7</span>

If

markup::define! {
    Classify(value: i32) {
        {value}
        " is "
        @if *value < 0 {
            "negative"
        } else if *value == 0 {
            "zero"
        } else {
            "positive"
        }
        ".\n"
    }
    Main {
        {Classify { value: -42 }}
        " "
        {Classify { value: 0 }}
        " "
        {Classify { value: 42 }}
    }
}
println!("{}", Main {});
-42 is negative.
 0 is zero.
 42 is positive.

For

markup::define! {
    Main {
        @for i in 1..5 {
            {i} " * 2 = " {i * 2} ";\n"
        }
    }
}
println!("{}", Main {});
1 * 2 = 2;
2 * 2 = 4;
3 * 2 = 6;
4 * 2 = 8;