idea: use html templating to render

[JLarky]

It would be cool to find a way to straight up use html/template for server components. The trick is to find a way to parse HTML and turn it into JSON; as well as mark islands so that we can use client references to render those on the client. This must be pretty similar to how islands in SolidStart work.

tmpl := template.New("index.html")
b := new(bytes.Buffer)
err := tmpl.Execute(b, map[string]interface{}{
	"MyIsland": Island("MyIsland"),
})

to turn that html on the client to JSX that could be used to hydrate React is going to be fun :) you can probably use dangerouslySetInnerHTML :) or you would need to have props that are in a special format, like

<button disabled strike:disabled="boolean:true" />

[bamcop]

Hello JLarky, I really like this project, but I'd suggest using JSX instead of golang template as the rendering template. JSX is much better than golang template, and is compatible with current front-end ecosystems. I created a repository that runs React SSR with quickjs and esbuild, and now can import all components from Headless UI

[JLarky]

Thanks, @bamcop! That looks interesting! I think I could use something like this for SSR (to get initial HTML string out of client components)!

The thinking behind using Go templates is that I can make sure that rendering to HTML is fast (because it doesn't require JS and everything is done in Go), and JS stuff is added as a bonus :)
Like once your whole application is written in JS there's not much sense in keeping Go wrapper around it :) I'm aiming for "most of the app in Go, and sprinkles of JS on top".

This particular issue is more about trying to make it go one step further from React structure, but at the moment I don't know if it's even possible, but cool line of thining anyway :)