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Show HN: Niccup – Hiccup-Like HTML Generation in ~120 Lines of Pure Nix

story by embedding-shape · 2025-12-03 · 0 comments

…can use metadata to model html attributes but in clojure people are using plain vector for that. https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup tl;dr first element of the vector is a tag, second is a map of attributes test are children nodes: [:h1…

comment by delaguardo · 2025-11-25 · in A fast EDN (Extensible Data Notation) reader written in C11 with SIMD boost

similar library: https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup

comment by lsh0 · 2024-07-24 · in Show HN: Slab – A programmable markup language for generating HTML

…[0] https://github.com/sunng87/ring-jetty9-adapter [1] https://github.com/metosin/reitit [2] https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup [3] https://www.hugsql.org/

comment by robto · 2024-05-22 · in Try Clojure

…There's a reason people keep coming back to it: it's actually really nice to write markup this way. https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup https://github.com/JuneKelly/sneeze

comment by asa400 · 2024-03-21 · in Ludic: New framework for Python with seamless Htmx support

Look at that, you almost reinvented `hiccup` ( https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup ) :) Taking things a bit further, you get an almost full copy of hiccup, and can save even more space and make it even simpler: [div.card [h3 "Familiar…

comment by diggan · 2024-01-16 · in Ask HN: What if we wrote HTML with [brackets][/brackets]?

…gets out of the way. DSL-wise, I've rather enjoyed Clojure's Hiccup [1]. [0] https://emmet.io/ [1] https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup

comment by nikolaplejic · 2023-09-20 · in Writing HTML by hand

Like this amirite https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup

comment by KRAKRISMOTT · 2023-08-30 · in Produce HTML from S-Expressions

…( https://htmx.org ) and server-side rendering (Hiccup way of manipulating HTML is just amazing, https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup ). - Schema management: Malli ( https://github.com/metosin/malli ) - Lifecycle management: Mount,…

comment by jgrodziski · 2023-08-10 · in A History of Clojure (2020) [pdf]

…syntax is flexible/simple enough to make generating HTML in a structured way the natural solution. https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup

comment by MBlume · 2023-05-26 · in That people produce HTML with string templates is telling us something

That is why I like Hiccup/ Clojure so much: https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup It is very natural to produce something resembling a document in pure Clojure data structures and then just convert it to valid HTML. I think, Reagent has…

comment by kaliszad · 2023-05-26 · in That people produce HTML with string templates is telling us something

You’re halfway to Clojure’s hiccup syntax[1] there. [1]: https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup/blob/master/doc/syntax...

comment by mechanicum · 2023-03-07 · in Rux: A JSX-inspired way to render view components in Ruby

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Hiccup: Fast library for rendering HTML in Clojure

story by memorable · 2022-06-07 · 2 comments

Indeed. We all know hiccup[0] style is the one true way to do it. [0] https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup

comment by harryvederci · 2021-11-05 · in Wasp: WASM Programming Language

…is very nice! :) (Clojure Hiccup library, similar libraries exist for other lisp-like languages: https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup )

comment by harryvederci · 2021-10-15 · in The Single-Page-App Morality Play

This would have really benefited from looking over something like clojure’s hiccup: https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup

comment by phyrex · 2021-10-05 · in I created a programming language and this blog is powered by it

…by combining htmx[1] and hiccup[2] [0] https://github.com/metosin/reitit [1] https://htmx.org/ [2] https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup

comment by harryvederci · 2021-05-01 · in Ask HN: What stack would you use to build a CRUD web app on the JVM today?

Clojure hiccup: https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup

comment by lenkite · 2021-03-06 · in Zola: A fast static site generator in a single binary

I'm new to LISP but the way Hiccup ( https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup ) in Clojure allows to embeds HTML in Clojure code feels really powerful.

comment by kehrin · 2021-01-24 · in Ask HN: LISPers, do you use homoiconicity (code-as-data)?

* Hiccup ( https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup ) - DSL for generating html. You can easily mix it with other language constructs. There are similar libraries for Common Lisp and Scheme. * Compojure-api (…

comment by dig1 · 2020-08-17 · in LFE: Lisp Flavored Erlang

…classes of tech that are uniquely Clojure: Data driven DSLs: - https://github.com/noprompt/garden - https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup - https://github.com/seancorfield/honeysql Hyper normalised relational databases: -…

comment by slifin · 2020-06-05 · in A History of Clojure [pdf]

The modern equivalent is Hiccup and Clojure. https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup/wiki/Syntax Clojure has literal lists using parens and vectors using square brackets. By using both you can mix code and markup in a readable way. It's…

comment by mlwiese · 2020-05-13 · in What if we'd had better HTML-in-JS syntax all along?

The "object" syntax reminds me a lot of Clojure/script's Hiccup ( https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup ) style, which has become a de-facto standard across many popular libraries. In hiccup, this example: { tag: "button", attributes: {…

comment by adambard · 2020-05-11 · in What if we'd had better HTML-in-JS syntax all along?

…and it's Hiccup-like[2] markup is bliss in this domain. [1] http://reagent-project.github.io/ [2] https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup

comment by kgwxd · 2020-05-11 · in What if we'd had better HTML-in-JS syntax all along?

…It uses a the same data format as hiccup template library which can be used on server side - https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup That's why the same code can be used on client and server. The simplicity of the process (uses pure…

comment by mateuszf · 2020-03-02 · in Clojure: A Lisp that wants to spread

This is awesome. Reminds me of Clojure's https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup which blows every template engine I've ever used out of the water.

comment by slightlyCyborg · 2020-01-08 · in Show HN: Bepis – Crazy Format for HTML+CSS in JavaScript

…2: https://github.com/Day8/re-frame 3: https://github.com/edn-format/edn 4: https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup

comment by fnordsensei · 2019-10-30 · in When XML Beats JSON: UI Layouts

Basically hiccup: https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup

comment by kickopotomus · 2019-10-30 · in When XML Beats JSON: UI Layouts

Even easier in Clojurescript using Hiccup https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup to render HTML: (def users [{:firstname "john", :lastname "snow"} {:firstname "Peter", :lastname "drucker"}]) (defn my-view [] [:ul (for [{:keys [firstname…

comment by subsaharancoder · 2019-10-23 · in Elm 0.19.1

Next best thing today: https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup#syntax , https://github.com/noprompt/garden#syntax

comment by sooheon · 2019-07-22 · in Show HN: Sinuous – Small, fast, reactive UI library

This reminds me very much of Hiccup[1]. Both nested s-expressions and HTML describe trees. [1] https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup

comment by notduncansmith · 2019-06-03 · in Major mode for editing SEML (S-Expression Markup Language) files

…required. [1]: https://github.com/Day8/re-frame [2]: https://github.com/edn-format/edn [3]: https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup/wiki/Syntax

comment by fnordsensei · 2019-05-19 · in Virtual DOM is pure overhead (2018)

Would anybody mind sharing links to good DSLs? From Clojure I think hiccup is a good example. https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup

comment by greenyouse · 2018-07-18 · in Designing a Good DSL

…lines, but that's a style thing. [0]: https://docs.racket-lang.org/html-template/index.html . [1]: https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup [2]: https://mustache.github.io/mustache.5.html † Sorry. Couldn't let the typo stand. Heinlein made me…

comment by grzm · 2018-03-30 · in Reddit 1.0 source code

It's basically hiccup ( https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup ).

comment by masklinn · 2018-01-23 · in Ijk – Transforms arrays into virtual DOM trees

also hiccup in clojureland, https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup which has an abandoned looking python port: https://github.com/pascience/pyhiccup Thanks, I hadn't seen Breve! I was looking for exactly this a while ago.

comment by zimablue · 2018-01-23 · in Ijk – Transforms arrays into virtual DOM trees

HTML: https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup CSS: https://github.com/noprompt/garden Javascript: https://github.com/clojure/clojurescript seriously, Clojure is the utopia.

comment by keymone · 2017-10-06 · in Show HN: nEXT Browser – A Lisp-based browser

…data literals and provides all necessary functions to manipulate it - and that i like. [1] https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup

comment by keymone · 2017-09-01 · in Why we moved from Angular 2 to Vue.js and why we didn’t choose React

Reminds me of Hiccup's syntax: https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup

comment by 147 · 2016-03-29 · in Show HN: Shaven 1.0.0

The simple syntax makes things like Hiccup and macros more convenient. https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup Macros allow things like core.async (like Go's channels), which is just a normal library; you didn't have to upgrade your Clojure…

comment by calibraxis · 2015-08-28 · in Simplicity Matters – Rich Hickey (2012) [video]

This is a great argument for using hiccup[1] and reagent[2] as well. [1] https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup#syntax [2] http://www.reagent-project.github.io

comment by escherize · 2015-05-16 · in How I learned to stop worrying and love React

…link, that is interesting. While I don't doubt that it's possible to create something similar to https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup in Ruby and Python as well, I am not aware of existing libraries for it and it's definitely not…

comment by kyllo · 2015-04-22 · in Existential crisis at Railsconf

Hiccup gives you HTML in Lisp https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup

comment by smizell · 2015-03-11 · in The thing I hate about HTML (2010)

> representing HTML You may like Clojure's Hiccup: https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup http://www.rkn.io/2014/03/13/clojure-cookbook-hiccup/ These representations underline how anomalous <IMG...>, <BR>, etc are in "standard" HTML.

comment by zwp · 2014-09-22 · in The Roots of Lisp (2002) [pdf]

In Clojure: https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup https://github.com/cgrand/enlive

comment by arsenerei · 2014-09-09 · in Use Emacs Org-mode Links for Absolutely Anything

…a non-issue for me, since I use Hiccup[1] for Clojure, which collapses all whitespace for me. [1]: https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup

comment by sdegutis · 2014-02-06 · in A Guide to Basic CSS Layout Structures and Quirks

…to start, and it bring me to this other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6669854 [1] https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup

comment by siscia · 2013-11-04 · in Show HN: RinohType – A modern LaTeX in 6500 lines of Python

…or are they parsed/validated/inspectable? Can one work with DOM nodes? (This is what I like about https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup/wiki/Syntax )

comment by wirrbel · 2013-10-27 · in The Slash Programming Language

Be sure to take a look at hiccup for clojure. https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup

comment by DigitalJack · 2013-03-26 · in Show HN: I'm writing a leanpub book about Common Lisp web programming

…from there. -- https://github.com/ring-clojure/ring https://github.com/weavejester/compojure https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup https://github.com/cgrand/enlive http://sqlkorma.com/ http://www.clojure-toolbox.com/ is really helpful for…

comment by cgag · 2013-01-09 · in How Lisp is Going to Save the World