EEx instead of Slime

[tielur]

How hard would it be to use something like EEx instead of Slime?

[gabrielpoca]

Hey @tielur EEx should be working. I have to finish a section on documentation about it, but if you put a file with the extension .eex it works like Slime. Or did you try it and it didn't work 🙈?

[tielur]

You know... I didn't try 🤦 I just assumed it was hardcoded to Slime because that was the only mix dependency. I'll give EEx a shot today. If I run into anything I'll ask a question here. If you need any help with documentation I can give that a whirl

[gabrielpoca]

@tielur it's our fault for not having a single example with eex. I've merged a PR with more docs on that and I'll publish a new version in a bit, feel free to ask questions, it will help us improve the docs!

[tielur]

@gabrielpoca what's your thoughts on an argument being passed to mix still.new to use EEx when generating the site instead of Slime?

[tielur]

mix still.new my_site --preprocessor eex
mix still.new my_site --preprocessor slime

We could default it to slime to keep backwards compatability. I'm not sure if preprocessor is the best argument name

[tielur]

If you agree this could be helpful and the argument name can be decided I'm willing to open a PR to add that feature

[gabrielpoca]

I agree with you that it's not clear that you can use .eex instead of .slime, but I'm not sure that adding that option to the generator really achieves that goal. What do you think of a simpler solution, like adding a page built with .eex to the generated site? Or simply transforming the footer.slime into a footer.eex? Would that be enough for the users to understand that you can use both?

[tielur]

@gabrielpoca That might be more confusing on why some are slime and some are EEx, I think if the documentation is updated to at least mention that EEx is available out of the box that's probably fine 👍

[gabrielpoca]

You're right. I'll make time next week to work on the docs. Just today someone was having issues contributing because they didn't know that you need ImageMagick in your system :s