Go in Practice

Chapter 6. HTML and email template patterns

This chapter covers

• Adding functionality inside templates
• Nesting templates
• Using template inheritance
• Rendering objects to HTML
• Using email templates

When you’re programmatically creating text or HTML responses in many programming environments, you need to seek out the right library to handle the HTML. Go handles this a little differently. In the standard library, Go provides template handling for both text and HTML. The HTML handling is built on top of the text template engine to add HTML-aware intelligence.

Although the standard library enables you to work with HTML templates, it stops short of having too many opinions. Instead, it provides a foundation along with the ability to extend ...