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Release 5.0.1 - New multi-module architecture

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Miguel Gamboa
Miguel Gamboa
HtmlFlow Author

Starting with version 5, the Java and Kotlin APIs are provided in separate modules.

As a result, the core Java HtmlFlow module no longer depends on the Kotlin coroutines library or jsoup (which is now only required by the reverse-engineering tool Flowifier, moved to its own module).

HtmlFlow is now organized into four distinct modules:

  • htmlflow-core: The main library (the htmlflow artifact) containing the Java API.
  • flowifier: A reverse-engineering tool for translating HTML documents into equivalent HtmlFlow view definitions.
  • htmlflow-kotlin: The idiomatic Kotlin API (which depends on htmlflow-core).
  • htmlflow-view-loader: A reflective inspector for HtmlFlow view definitions. It loads Kotlin functions of type T -> String that return rendered HTML.
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The htmlflow-view-loader module is particularly useful for integrating with web servers like http4k, which treat render engines as T -> String functions.

Additionally, an mfe() builder has been added to dynamically load HTML fragments, supporting both SSR and CSR approaches within HtmlFlow view definitions.