https://jackieli.dev/tags/templating/Recent content in Templating on jackieli.devHugoenSat, 04 Jul 2026 08:26:00 +0000https://jackieli.dev/posts/why-i-built-gsx/Sat, 04 Jul 2026 08:26:00 +0000https://jackieli.dev/posts/why-i-built-gsx/<p>I have been building <a href="https://github.com/gsxhq/gsx" class="external-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gsx</a>, a Go template compiler with JSX-style markup, <code>component</code> declarations, and plain Go output.</p> <p>The obvious question is: why?</p> <p>More specifically: why not just use <a href="https://templ.guide/" class="external-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">templ</a>?</p> <p>Firstly, I like templ. gsx is not built because I think templ is bad. In fact, gsx is intentionally compatible with the templ ecosystem. A <code>gsx.Node</code> has the same render shape as <code>templ.Component</code>:</p> <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" class="chroma"><code class="language-go" data-lang="go"><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="nf">Render</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nx">ctx</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nx">context</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">Context</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nx">w</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nx">io</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">Writer</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="kt">error</span><span class="w"> </span></span></span></code></pre></div><p>So this is not a &ldquo;throw everything away and start again&rdquo; situation.</p>