Remove server side rendering functionalities
Kaliumhexacyanoferrat opened this issue · 0 comments
As a developer of web applications, I would like to use JS based frontend technologies for UI (via SPAs) as well as a simple backend layer, so that I can quickly create feature rich apps.
Currently, the GenHTTP server framework features a path for server-side rendering of websites. This functionality creates some complexity within the server code (e.g. GetContent() and loads of routing logic) but is merely used.
Therefore, all capabilities for server-side rendering are now considered deprecated and will be removed with version 9 released together with .NET 9 end of 2024.
This will allow future development to focus on much-needed features such as OpenAPI integration or JWT authentication.
This change induces the removal of the following modules:
Authentication.WebAutoReloadPagesRazor,Scriban,MarkdownRobotsMinificationSitemapsWebsites- All of the
GenHTTP.Themes
The changes will be done in an additional branch to allow features to be added to master as long as possible.
Steps and roadmap
- Update the readme, nuget packages, templates, themes and website to reflect the deprecated state
- Create the new branch and remove the functionality
- Create new documentation branches having the old functionality already removed from the website
- Merge the removal into master
- Release the changes alongside .NET 9 support