Overview

A super lightweight template engine to load and parse go templates from the local filesystem. It works with gin out of the box.

To install it:

go install github.com/gsuntres/pages

Usage

Pages was designed to work with gin's HTMLRender.

engine := gin.New()

instance := pages.NewPagesWithProps(&pages.PagesProps{
  Mode: ModeLocal,
})

engine.HTMLRender = instance

By default, Pages will look for template files in the pages directory. To render a template you call

c.HTML(200, "mypage.html")

or

c.HTML(200, "subpath/mypage.html")

when paths are relative to pages.

To render pages using a layout

c.HTML(200, "subpath/mypage.html?layout=layout.html")

Pages will make sure to load layout.html first then mypage.html and render the final template.

Cache

By default caching is disabled. Any changes on the templates will show up on the next render.

To enable it, pass WithCache = true to PagesProps.

Helper Functions

Gotemplate's equivalent to locals in express.js is template.FuncMap. Pages has the following functions availabe in templates:

• safe: to escape html
• safeURL: to escape url strings
• json: to parse data into json
• jsonPretty: same as json but more redable json
• ifelse: a convenient one line if else statement
• call: safely calls a function if it exists

To add more

instance.AddFunc(name, func)