html

This Go package can load, compose and render HTML templates. It's a small layer on top of 'html/template'.

Features

• fluent API: easily compose templates into sets
• auto-reloading: reload templates on page refresh
• redefinition: define a default and overwrite it later
• validation: ensure completeness at time of creation (not rendering)
• helper functions: e.g. use 'runTemplate' to execute an arbitrary template
• caching: templates are only parsed once

Example

import "github.com/stephanos/html"

// specify template source directories, enable auto-reload
conf := html.Config{Directories: []string{"views"}, AutoReload: true}

// scan for available templates
loader, _ := html.NewLoader(conf)

// create two sets: a re-usable and a specific one
baseSet := loader.NewSet().Add("layout", "partials/header", "partials/footer")
helloSet := loader.NewSet().AddSet(baseSet).Add("pages/hello")

// create executable view, making sure all template placeholders are defined
view := helloSet.ViewMust()

// execute the template and print the result to a Writer
http.HandleFunc("/hello", func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
    view.Write(w, "World") 
})

ToDos

• render any error to HTML (+ display snippet of template source)
• add method to trigger a re-build of all views
• allow custom template file extension (other than .html)
• allow custom template parser

Install

go get github.com/stephanos/html

Documentation

godoc.org

License

MIT (see LICENSE).