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0 pointsdinkleberg2y ago0 comments

I’ve been using pongo2 for a year or two as I always found the standard html/template to be annoying to work with for inheritance as you mentioned. I’ve got years of Django experience and always liked their templates, and pongo2 is basically just Django templates in Go so it’s nice.

But being able to break things into reusable components with templ is compelling (and works fairly well from my experimenting). I’m just not in love with how you pass data into it and I ran into a few awkward points with the string interpolation of data when doing inline scripts.

I’m sure if I spent more time with it, I’d overcome these issues quick.

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attilakun2y ago

I remember checking out pongo2 briefly before deciding on templ, but my lack of familiarity with its syntax kept me away. I guess the calculus is much different if you have prior experience, but for me it was attractive that templ uses Go syntax in its templates (with some exceptions).

Yeah, passing data if for some reason you can't use templ's `script` block can be annoying, if that's what you meant! I think they should make sure that the `script` block works in every situation and then it's going to be way less awkward.

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