Comment by dan353hehe

I love Lua for being able to do things like this.

I was building a bunch of html pages for an htmx frontend and a golang back end, and got really exhausted from using the builtin `html/template` library in golang. I kept trying to build reusable components, and it just didn’t work as I wanted it to.

I ended up doing this exact thing as mentioned in this blog post. https://github.com/DBarney/Glua Granted this is just for me, and for prototyping. I put it on GitHub so I wouldn’t loose it.

Writing html got so much easier this way:

    local function Component(data)
     return div{"my name is", data.name}
    end

    return function(params)
      html{
        head{title="this is my page"},
        body{
          h1{"This is my small page I wrote"},
          p{
            "some content",
            "more content"
          },
          div{"page has some dynamic values",params.count},
            Component{name="daniel"}
        }
      }
    end

Edit: formatting