XHtml

XHtml is a output type in Fireback actions, which returns an html template. You an create html files in a folder, embed them, and then XHtml would render them. Upon development, they are being read from disk, and on production they are read from embed file system.

XHtml is the simplest form of building websites, without additional framework, using pure css, almost pure html, and of course pure javascript. XHtml is perfect answer for the classic get/postback forms, you can make an endpoint to show your page, or accept a post back content and do some action on top of it.

All you need to do on an action is, to set the out.xhtml to true:

...
actions:
   - name: getHome
     url: /
     method: get
     out:
       xhtml: true
   - name: postHome
     url: /
     method: post
     out:
       xhtml: true
     in:
       fields:
       - name: firstName
         type: string

Following code would create a GetHomeAction.go and PostHomeAction.go files. After here, you need to create screens folder, and create your html and static assets there.

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Conventions

All files can go to the screens folder, regardless of their type. Go codes treated as normal fireback modules, and you will pass the data to them directly.

Shared templates need to live in the screens/shared as go template.

Notes regarding XHtml

Xhtml renders static assets, such as link, img, script tags relative to the markup template, and on the fly, changes the import paths. This causes all intelisense on simple html to work, as well as javascript intelises. Fireback combines css, and minifies them, but js won't be bundled, instead would be using import/export native feature of the browser to import other files.