Native Extensions

Another important feature we added to stencil was support for Native Modules. This allows you to add native code (we've used Golang, but other languages are viable as well since it uses a generic RPC interface for communication) to modules. We've used this for interfacing with other codegen systems like goverter, running database migrations and extracting/codegenning data models from finished database schemas, and many other uses for when you need something more complicated than just living templates.

For an example of a basic native extension, check the Guide and it will probably be a little clearer.

Next Steps

So that's the crash course. Does this sound interesting to you? Get started with our Guide!