Before starting to develop our web app, we will examine the concept of a template engine—in particular, the Tera crate, one of the many template engines available for Rust.
Template engines can have several applications, but they are mostly used for web development.
A typical problem in web development is knowing how to generate HTML code containing some constants parts written by hand and some dynamic parts generated by application code. In general, there are two ways to obtain this kind of effect:
- You have a programming language source file that contains a lot of statements that print strings to create the desired HTML page. These print statements mix string literals (that is, strings enclosed in quotation marks) and variables formatted as strings. This is what you'd do in Rust if you didn't have a template engine.
- You write an HTML file containing the desired constant HTML elements and the desired constant text, but it also contains...
