Recently I've also been using Axum and HTMX but instead of writing templates I've been using Maud to write the dynamic bits inside the handlers themselves. Then

Recently I've also been using Axum and HTMX but instead of writing templates I've been using Maud to write the dynamic bits inside the handlers themselves. Then I just serve a static .html file containing everything that can be static with HTMX requests to fetch the rest. The downside is Maud isn't proper HTML but the benefit is I can use normal Rust to format my variables, etc into whatever string format I need rather than deal with a constrained templating language. It feels like writing an API that happens to serve HTML instead of JSON. I debate using Askama to avoid the extra requests but there's something nice about just serving static HTML files.