New Page

Create a new merjs page

Scaffold a new page at app/$ARGUMENTS.zig that follows the merjs conventions.

Steps

1. Create app/$ARGUMENTS.zig with this template:

const mer = @import("mer");
const h = mer.h;

pub const meta: mer.Meta = .{
    .title = "PAGE_TITLE",
    .description = "PAGE_DESCRIPTION",
};

const page_node = page();

pub fn render(req: mer.Request) mer.Response {
    return mer.render(req.allocator, page_node);
}

fn page() h.Node {
    return h.div(.{ .class = "page" }, .{
        h.h1(.{}, "PAGE_TITLE"),
    });
}

2. Replace PAGE_TITLE and PAGE_DESCRIPTION with sensible values derived from the page name
3. Run zig build codegen to regenerate routes
4. Confirm the new route appears in src/generated/routes.zig
5. Tell the user the route is available at the mapped URL path

Conventions

• Every app/ page MUST export pub const meta: mer.Meta
• Every page MUST export pub fn render(req: mer.Request) mer.Response
• Use the h DSL (mer.h) for HTML — prefer comptime nodes
• For dynamic routes, use bracket syntax: app/users/[id].zig → /users/:id
• app/index.zig maps to /
• app/foo/index.zig maps to /foo
• Add pub const prerender = true; for static pages that don't need request data