Standalone HTML Template Repository

[Culpable]

Current Situation

I've been exploring Flowbite for a Flask project and find it to be an excellent component library. However, I've encountered a limitation in how the component HTML templates are distributed.

Currently—please correct me if I'm wrong—the only comprehensive source for component HTML markup appears to be embedded within Markdown documentation files in the flowbite-docs repository.

The Challenge

This creates several inefficiencies for developers:

1. No direct access to clean HTML: To use components, we must manually extract code blocks from Markdown files.
2. Difficult local reference: Creating a local component library requires parsing Markdown or manually copying from documentation.
3. Version tracking complications: When updates occur, it's difficult to identify which HTML patterns have changed without reviewing entire documentation files.
4. Integration barriers: For teams adopting Flowbite, having to constantly reference documentation rather than a clean template library increases friction.

Feature Request

Could Flowbite provide a dedicated repository or section within the existing repository that contains standalone HTML template files for all components? Ideally, this would be:

• Organized by component type (buttons, navbars, modals, etc.)
• Contains clean HTML files without Markdown wrappers
• Version-controlled alongside the main library
• Easily cloneable or downloadable as a complete reference

Benefits

This approach would:

1. Streamline adoption: Developers could quickly clone a complete reference of all components
2. Improve maintainability: Teams could track template changes through version control
3. Enable better customization: A clean template library makes it easier to create modified versions
4. Facilitate framework integration: Framework-specific adaptations would be easier to develop
5. Reduce documentation dependency: Developers could work offline with a complete local reference

Again, sorry if this information is somewhere already, but I can't seem to find it.

If not, is this something on the roadmap?

It would significantly enhance the developer experience for those of us building with Flowbite, especially in Flask and other server-rendered frameworks.

[LuisHPorras]

Same thing is happening to me. Since I'm new to Django (the framework used in my project) I was wondering if this was something specific from the Python ecosystem so I opened a thread in the Django forum a few days ago.

It may be a lot of effort for the project to maintain framework specific implementations of the components but it would be great to ease devs task as suggested and then I guess the community could contribute repos of frameworks examples or go-to starting points. I'm currently going to implement it with django-cotton. So let us know if the team has some advice on this matter.

Thanks!