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HTML Templates
Serving HTML is an important job for some web applications. Go has one of my favorite templating languages to date. Not for its features, but for its simplicity and out of the box security. Rendering HTML templates is almost as easy as rendering JSON using the 'html/template' package from the standard library. Here is what the source code for rendering HTML templates looks like:
package main
import (
"html/template"
"net/http"
"path"
)
type book struct {
Title string
Author string
}
func main() {
http.HandleFunc("/", showBooks)
http.ListenAndServe(":8080", nil)
}
func showBooks(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
b := book{"Building Web Apps with Go", "Jeremy Saenz"}
fp := path.Join("templates", "index.html")
tmpl, err := template.ParseFiles(fp)
if err != nil {
http.Error(w, err.Error(), http.StatusInternalServerError)
return
}
if err := tmpl.Execute(w, b); err != nil {
http.Error(w, err.Error(), http.StatusInternalServerError)
}
}
This is the following template we will be using. It should be placed in a
templates/index.html file in the directory your program is run from:
<html>
<h1>{{ .Title }}</h1>
<h3>by {{ .Author }}</h3>
</html>
Exercises
- Look through the docs for
text/templateandhtml/templatepackage. Play with the templating language a bit to get a feel for its goals, strengths, and weaknesses. - In the example we parse the files on every request, which can be a lot of performance overhead. Experiment with parsing the files at the beginning of your program and executing them in your
http.Handler(hint: make use of theCopy()method onhtml.Template). - Experiment with parsing and using multiple templates.
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