html static webpages

[May4m]

Hi Pim. Thanks for putting time on Falco. I'm new to both F# and Falco and I'm learning through creating stuff 🙂 . One question I have is how do I render .html static files and edit the attributes and elements/nodes in Falco or something like template rendering.

[pimbrouwers]

Hi Sizwe,

Thanks for reaching out.

I'm unsure what you're trying to do exactly. Are you trying to produce an HTML response? Or physically read an HTML file from disk, and render it's contents?

[May4m]

I'm trying to read html file from disk, modify and render the contents

[pimbrouwers]

Thank you for the clarification!

The Falco view engine won't help you with this, since it's based on pure F# functions. To me, it sounds like you need a template engine like scriban, which will efficiently replace symbols found in string literals.

You can use the string you get from scriban, or another template engine with the Response.ofHtmlString in order to render the HTML with Falco.

let htmlStringHandler : HttpHandler =
    let html = "{html string from template engine}"
   
    html
    |> Response.ofHtmlString

For a complete example of how this works, checkout the scriban example in the sample projects directory.

[May4m]

thanks, scriban sounds like exactly like what i need :). I'm closing the issue