If you've ever enjoyed the developer experience of Razor Pages in ASP.NET but wished you could use the safer, designer-friendly Liquid templating language instead, then LiquidPages is the framework for you. LiquidPages is an open-source C# library from Kinetq that brings a familiar MVVM-style page model to Liquid templates—and it's designed to plug into virtually any .NET web server.
In this post, we'll take a tour of what LiquidPages is, why it exists, and how its building blocks fit together.
What Is LiquidPages?
LiquidPages is a middleware-based library that uses Fluid under the hood to parse and render Liquid templates. Liquid is a flexible and safe templating language originally created by Shopify, and it's a great fit for content-driven sites where templates may be edited by non-developers.
LiquidPages adopts an MVVM philosophy similar to Razor Pages—hence the name. Each page is paired with a page model that supplies a strongly-typed view model to the Liquid template at render time. The result is a clean separation between presentation (the .liquid file) and the data/logic that drives it (the C# page model).
