Mithril2Html

clarkwinkelmann

I have published an experimental package that allows rendering a Mithril component into an HTML string, intended primarily for use with blade templates.

This is both a blessing and a curse. It's not a very good solution for the problem it aims to solve, but it does solve it so I'm giving it a try.

The main reason for this is to make extendable emails that other extensions can extend using the same frontend API. That way ItemLists don't need to be re-implemented in PHP and existing components from common namespaces can be re-used on both the forum and emails.

I published a 1.0 version because I need semver tags, but it's still very much a beta product.

This package will be integrated into Flamarkt 0.1 to render emails (order and product summaries), though it will only be used with an async mail queue.

The README on GitHub explains how it works https://github.com/clarkwinkelmann/flarum-mithril2html

clarkwinkelmann

Version 1.1.0

Updated code to use Webpack 5.
Fixed compatibility with extensions that provide their bundles compiled with Webpack 5.
Added different default content for single page app 404 page.
Added mithril2html:troubleshoot command to manually render a given URL, and obtain console output and request log from Chrome.
A 500 error in the preload call now makes Chrome fail with a 500 error rather than boot into the single page app which then breaks on invalid payload.
A 404 error in the preload now makes the rendering fail with a 500 error rather than a 404 error which wouldn't be logged anywhere.
The PHP renderer now throws custom exception classes, but the error text is unchanged.

I suppose I'm still the only user of this package at this time, but it's most certainly not abandoned! The progress on Flamarkt required some compatibility changes. This package should see some real world testing in a production environment around January along with the Flamarkt extensions if everything goes to plan.

jigzstar

clarkwinkelmann I have a use case coming up, where they would like to use the forums to allow persons to sell put their products up for sale. Is this the direction of the flamarket/core project?

clarkwinkelmann

jigzstar please use this discussion for anything e-commerce related https://discuss.flarum.org/d/28059-flamarkt-its-not-here-yet

User to user selling is not part of the features I'm working on, but as a framework Flamarkt will probably be a good starting point to implement it.

If you are not going to process payments, shipping or inventory there's probably little benefit using Flamarkt as a starting point though. Just use some dedicated tags and maybe the Taxonomies extension to create an "ad" area on the forum.

jigzstar

Okay, gotcha. That's exactly what I had in mind but then I came across your extension/post and wanted to ascertain whether it would be useful for that purpose. However, I tried installing via composer but got a dependency error stemming from this package.

Thanks for the info btw! Looks very promising indeed!