[merely-unlikely]

Recently I've also been using Axum and HTMX but instead of writing templates I've been using Maud to write the dynamic bits inside the handlers themselves. Then I just serve a static .html file containing everything that can be static with HTMX requests to fetch the rest.

The downside is Maud isn't proper HTML but the benefit is I can use normal Rust to format my variables, etc into whatever string format I need rather than deal with a constrained templating language. It feels like writing an API that happens to serve HTML instead of JSON.

I debate using Askama to avoid the extra requests but there's something nice about just serving static HTML files.