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Nope, as far as I know there's no serverside HTML generation crate. Granted, I haven't looked, but I feel like it would have come up on /r/Rust sometime.

Everything else you mentioned is out there, although I didn't love the websocket experience the one time I needed them for something.

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Most rust web frameworks are server side, and generate HTML, so I’m not sure what you were looking at, but it absolutely exists. Most rust web stuff is server side generated.

Sure, obviously you can generate strings containing HTML and send those. I'm imagining something like the serverside rendering you get with e.g. React. That said, I don't know what specifically the previous poster was looking for.

I'm a bit confused, what's the difference? SSR React also ends up "generating strings containing HTML and sending those."

I don't really know what you mean by serverside HTML generation crate. HTML is just HTML. What I usually need is some templating system, and that can be used to produce HTML, SQL, or whatever else I want.

Use askama or tera, for example. Here's an example of using askama with axum: https://github.com/djc/askama/tree/main/askama_axum

If you mean something more significant, like what an ORM/query builder is to SQL, then I haven't really had a need for such a thing myself. It's far more likely to get in my way when I stray past common scenarios.

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