That would look like this: you’d process it like: var fileinclude = require('gulp-file-include'), Gulp has a variety of processors that can do this. What’s even faster than a server-side include? If the include is preprocessed before it’s even on the server. This will perform the include at the server level, making the request for it happen at the file system level on the server, so it should be far quicker than a client-side solution. And we still are, because the idea of includes is useful on pretty much every website in the world. Long before we were preprocessing our CSS, we were using tools to manipulate our HTML.

People have been looking to other languages to solve this problem for them forever. For example the use case for much of the entire internet, an included header and footer for all pages. I’m talking about straight up includes, like taking a chunk of HTML and plopping it right into another. Nor does there seem to be anything on the horizon that addresses it. It’s extremely surprising to me that HTML has never had any way to include other HTML files within it.

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