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@develwithoutacause@techhub.socialI just started playing around with #Preact #SSR with #htm and the first thing I did was render the classic:
```
render(html`
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Preact</title>
<meta charset="utf8">
</head>
<body>
<h2>Hello, World!</h2>
</body>
</html>
`)
```
And this intuitively output:
```
html
<head>
<title>Preact</title>
<meta charset="utf8" >
<body>
<h2>Hello, World!</h2>
</body>
</head>
```
Lolwat?
* `<!DOCTYPE html>` is gone.
* `<html>` turned into `html` and lost its close tag.
* `<body>` got moved inside `<head>`.
Apparently you can't output a doctype at all (https://github.com/preactjs/preact-render-to-string/issues/201) and the `<meta>` tag is not self-closing in #JSX.
I'm willing to accept those constraints, but this is an utter failure of DX IMHO. If my template is wrong, TELL ME! Don't just generate what's effectively garbage for seemingly no reason. There's no obviously logical path from "bad output" to "the mistake in my code". Error messages, please!