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Go: Building Web Applications
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Go: Building Web Applications

by Nathan Kozyra, Mat Ryer
August 2016
Beginner to intermediate
665 pages
14h 11m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 4. Using Templates

In Chapter 2, Serving and Routing, we explored how to take URLs and translate them to different pages in our web application. In doing so, we built URLs that were dynamic and resulted in dynamic responses from our (very simple) net/http handlers.

We've presented our data as real HTML, but we specifically hard-coded our HTML directly into our Go source. This is not ideal for production-level environments for a number of reasons.

Luckily, Go comes equipped with a robust but sometimes tricky template engine for both text templates, as well as HTML templates.

Unlike a lot of other template languages that eschew logic as a part of the presentation side, Go's template packages enable you to utilize some logic constructs, such ...

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