Chapter 5. Displaying content
This chapter covers
- Templates and template engines
- The Go template libraries text/template and html/template
- Actions, pipelines, and functions in templates
- Nesting of templates and layouts
A web template is a predesigned HTML page that’s used repeatedly by a software program, called a template engine, to generate one or more HTML pages. Web template engines are an important part of any web application framework, and most if not all full-fledged frameworks have one. Although a number of frameworks have embedded template engines, many frameworks use a mix-and-match strategy that allows programmers to choose the template engine they prefer.
Go is no exception. Although Go is a relatively new programming language, ...
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