check out dioxus, it’s very similar to react, but uses rust instead or js, it also uses a JSX-like syntax, and although there isn’t an automatic direct mapping between files and webpages, they give a router with which you can easily make it work that way 🤷‍♀️

try rocket, the rust framework. it’s fast, simple and powerful. it doesn’t have the directory structure thing you want by default, but there’s nothing stopping you from using it like that. there’s not really any boilerplate so each file would just be a function that returns your html which is generated by server-side code (or is static). it also lets you handle dynamic routes and url queries VERY cleanly. you’d have to write your html in a string if you used the default stuff, but you can use typed_html, a small library that provides a macro (rust macros are not your usual evil macros) for writing html a bit more naturally. or you can use rocket’s built-in template engine support (i think it’s just tera and handlebars by default, i couldn’t see any others mentioned), though i haven’t used that so i can’t say how good it is.

rocket is a great way to do nojs sites, because it’s built for APIs and not “modern” web pages, and it’s made so that you barely notice it even exists, so you can just write code/html like normal. the best thing is how it lets you respond to input, through very powerful dynamic URLs, through queries/forms, through static URLs, or through a combination of all of those

(i love how the other guy wrote a one sentence recommendation while i wrote an essay. sry lol)

check out java server pages

Hiccup with Clojure works this way, and since Clojure uses s-expression syntax it’s natural to express HTML directly using native language data structures without any need for DSLs.

For small sites, you can run them on Babashka interpreter as seen here without needing the JVM.

Depending on what you want to do and how much server side the server side code really needs to be, I’d suggest you take a look at:

• Django: Full blown Python web application framework with database migrations and a lot more of bells and whistles
• elm pages: Static page generator around the elm programming language, where you can bake a lot of things into a (after compilation) static html page but still have a very powerful and flexible language for dynamic content at your fingertips

What’s interesting is that even though code is mixed with html by design in PHP, ultimately a lot of frameworks tend to create a whole other layer of templates, complete with pseudocode like loops and conditionals. If you’re going to do that, you might as well just do CGI methinks.

Mixing code and page layout isn’t the solution it appears to be. Another fun approach is to use sophisticated XSL templates to generate the HTML from XML data, and CSS to style it.

First, you can do that with PHP (yes, I know you refused it but I can recommend you my examples below) or Java (JSP) already (being this last also suggested by @overflow64@lemmy.ml).

There are different ways to do it and you can check my PHP activities at https://notabug.org/EchedeyLR/DSW *

ASP(X) has the additional dealbreaker of not being open source and only running on Windows servers

You have Mono and there is a plugin for Apache Http Server allowing it but you can also run it through Mono specific server.

However I don’t want to recommend it because I don’t see ethical because it is MS tech.

Note: UT0 directory has nothing to do with PHP. It was requested by the teacher to train a bit and is not something I am specially proud of.

SWI-Prolog has a web framework built in that ties your code to your HTML in structure. There’s a good tutorial on it available.

This is a bad idea programming-wise, since you want to separate templates and output due to DRY principle, Separation of Concerns, maybe the MVC programming paradigms and general code cleanliness.

If you do this wrong with dynamic pages, you open up issues with code injection. At the very least, your code will be hard to read.