Feature request: Optional support for a template engines

[automagisch]

As a user and HTML coder, I would love to not write repetitive HTML. To solve this, I'd like to see some handler that enables us to use EJS, Handlebars, Nunjucks (or something else) so I can include separate chunks of html into my static templates.

I use serve to build static websites before I add them as a template in a CMS or static generator. But also in static JS, I'd love to add chunks of html into a template to stay organized and non-repetitive.

I hope it validates as a feature. As a hint, this package deals with collecting and assigning template engines: https://www.npmjs.com/package/consolidate. This way, the user can npm install the template engine of choice, and consolidate could handle the inclusion to serve with that template engine.

I hope this suggestion fits in the core ideas of serve. I use this daily as a tool because it does the job great! Thanks a lot for maintaining this project.

[styfle]

Hi @automagisch

We would expect your static site generator (SSG) framework to convert templates to HTML.

This doesn't really fit with the purpose of serve which serves static files.

Instead, you could try Next.js for React templates or Hugo for Markdown templates.

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I hope that helps!