okay holy shit i can actually put HTML in responses now

Cargo.lock

@@ -389,6 +389,7 @@ version = "0.1.0"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
  "async-std",
+ "html-escape",
  "rocket",
  "sqlx",
 ]
@@ -952,6 +953,15 @@ dependencies = [
  "windows-sys 0.52.0",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "html-escape"
+version = "0.2.13"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "6d1ad449764d627e22bfd7cd5e8868264fc9236e07c752972b4080cd351cb476"
+dependencies = [
+ "utf8-width",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "http"
 version = "0.2.12"
@@ -2560,6 +2570,12 @@ version = "2.1.3"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "daf8dba3b7eb870caf1ddeed7bc9d2a049f3cfdfae7cb521b087cc33ae4c49da"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "utf8-width"
+version = "0.1.7"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "86bd8d4e895da8537e5315b8254664e6b769c4ff3db18321b297a1e7004392e3"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "valuable"
 version = "0.1.0"

Cargo.toml

@@ -8,5 +8,6 @@ edition = "2021"
 [dependencies]
 anyhow = "1.0.82"
 async-std = { version = "1.12.0", features = ["attributes"] }
+html-escape = "0.2.13"
 rocket = "0.5.0"
 sqlx = { version = "0.7", features = ["runtime-async-std", "sqlite", "migrate"] }

src/main.rs

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+use rocket::response::content;
 use sqlx::SqlitePool;
 use std::env;
 
@@ -25,7 +26,7 @@ async fn get_comments(pool: &SqlitePool, page: &str) -> Result<Vec<Comment>, sql
 }
 
 #[rocket::get("/txt?<page>")]
-async fn index(page: &str, pool: &rocket::State<SqlitePool>) -> Result<String, String> {
+async fn txt(page: &str, pool: &rocket::State<SqlitePool>) -> Result<String, String> {
     Ok(get_comments(pool, page)
         .await
         .map_err(|_| "error fetching comments for this page, sorry")?
@@ -41,6 +42,38 @@ async fn index(page: &str, pool: &rocket::State<SqlitePool>) -> Result<String, S
         .collect::<String>())
 }
 
+#[rocket::get("/html?<page>")]
+async fn html(
+    page: &str,
+    pool: &rocket::State<SqlitePool>,
+) -> Result<content::RawHtml<String>, String> {
+    let comments = get_comments(pool, page)
+        .await
+        .map_err(|_| "error fetching comments for this page, sorry")?;
+
+    let html = format!(
+        r#"<div class="comments">{}</div>"#,
+        comments
+            .into_iter()
+            .map(|rec| {
+                format!(
+                    r#"
+                        <div class="comment" data-id="{}">
+                            <div class="comment__author">{}</div>
+                            <div class="comment__content">{}</div>
+                        </div>
+                    "#,
+                    rec.id,
+                    html_escape::encode_text(&rec.name.unwrap_or("anonymous".to_owned())),
+                    html_escape::encode_text(&rec.content),
+                )
+            })
+            .collect::<String>()
+    );
+
+    Ok(content::RawHtml(html))
+}
+
 #[rocket::get("/add?<page>&<name>&<content>")]
 async fn add(
     page: &str,
@@ -69,5 +102,5 @@ async fn rocket() -> _ {
         .expect("Failed to connect to database");
     rocket::build()
         .manage(pool)
-        .mount("/", rocket::routes![index, add])
+        .mount("/", rocket::routes![txt, html, add])
 }