tyrrrz/minirazor

MiniRazor is a lightweight tool for .NET developers who want to use Razor templates to generate text or HTML. Razor is a templating syntax that lets you mix plain text with code, you write something like <p>Hello, @Model.Name!</p> and the code part gets replaced with actual values when the template runs. This project wraps the Razor engine in a simpler interface so developers can compile and render templates without dealing with a lot of complexity. The tool supports two main workflows. The first is build-time compilation, where templates are converted into regular C# classes when the project is built. This means the templates are ready to go as soon as the app runs, with no compilation overhead at runtime. The second is run-time compilation, where templates are compiled on the fly from their source code. This is useful when templates might change or are provided dynamically. In both cases, templates can be type-safe, you specify what kind of data the template expects, so mistakes like passing the wrong variable type get caught early. Typical users are .NET developers building things like email template systems, report generators, or any application that needs to produce formatted text or HTML from structured data. For example, a startup sending personalized onboarding emails could store the email layout as a Razor template and fill in each user's details at runtime. A team building a code generator could use build-time templates to produce boilerplate C# files automatically. One practical detail: the README notes that run-time compilation produces in-memory code that stays there by default, but developers can pass a custom assembly load context to control when that memory gets released. The project is marked as discontinued, and the README suggests two alternatives for different needs.