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Decide to render a partial or not dynamically in Astro

Using htmx I have the need to render an HTML partial from a page, so I use:

---
export const partial = true
---

What if, however, I decide I want to render a full page instead, maybe depending on the HTTP method used to reach this page?

I can still wrap the resulting HTML in a <Layout> component that renders the DOCTYPE, head tag and all.

And this will render the full page.

Otherwise if you just output an HTML fragment without wrapping in a layout, it’s an HTML partial.


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