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Gold - Template engine for Go

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Gold is a template engine for Go. This simplifies HTML coding in Go web application development. This is influenced by Slim and Jade.

Example

doctype html
html lang=en
  head
    title {{.Title}}
  body
    h1 Gold - Template engine for Go
    #container.wrapper
      {{if true}}
        p You can use an expression of Go text/template package in a Gold template.
      {{end}}
      p.
        Gold is a template engine for Go.
        This simplifies HTML coding in Go web application development.
    javascript:
      var msg = 'Welcome to Gold!';
      alert(msg);

becomes

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
	<head>
		<title>Gold</title>
	</head>
	<body>
		<h1>Gold - Template engine for Go</h1>
		<div id="container" class="wrapper">
			<p>You can use an expression of Go html/template package in a Gold template.</p>
			<p>
				Gold is a template engine for Go.
				This simplifies HTML coding in Go web application development.
			</p>
		</div>
		<script type="text/javascript">
			msg = 'Welcome to Gold!';
			alert(msg);
		</script>
	</body>
</html>

Implementation Example

package main

import (
	"github.com/yosssi/gold"
	"net/http"
)

// Create a generator which parses a Gold templates and
// returns a html/template package's template.
// You can have a generator cache templates by passing
// true to NewGenerator function.
var g = gold.NewGenerator(false)

func handler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
	// ParseFile parses a Gold template and
	// returns an html/template package's template.
	tpl, err := g.ParseFile("./top.gold")

	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}

	data := map[string]interface{}{"Title": "Gold"}

	// Call Execute method of the html/template
	// package's template.
	err = tpl.Execute(w, data)
	
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
}

func main() {
	http.HandleFunc("/", handler)
	http.ListenAndServe(":8080", nil)
}

Syntax

doctype

doctype html

becomes

<!DOCTYPE html>

Following doctypes are available:

doctype html
<!DOCTYPE html>

doctype xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>

doctype transitional
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

doctype strict
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

doctype frameset
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Frameset//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-frameset.dtd">

doctype 1.1
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">

doctype basic
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML Basic 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-basic/xhtml-basic11.dtd">

doctype mobile
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//WAPFORUM//DTD XHTML Mobile 1.2//EN" "http://www.openmobilealliance.org/tech/DTD/xhtml-mobile12.dtd">

You can also use your own literal custom doctype:

doctype html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML Basic 1.1//EN"
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML Basic 1.1//EN">

Creating Simple Tags

div
  address
  i
  strong

becomes

<div>
	<address></address>
	<i></i>
	<strong></strong>
</div>

Putting Texts Inside Tags

p Welcome to Gold
p
  | You can insert single text.
p.
  You can insert
  multiple texts.

becomes

<p>Welcome to Gold</p>
<p>You can insert single text.</p>
<p>
	You can insert
	multiple texts.
</p>

Adding Attributes to Tags

a href=https://github.com/yosssi/gold target=_blank Gold GitHub Page
button data-action=btnaction style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 1rem;"
  | This is a button

becomes

<a href="https://github.com/yosssi/gold" target="_blank">Gold GitHub Page</a>
<button data-action="btnaction" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 1rem;">This is a button</button>

IDs and Classes

h1#title.main-title Welcome to Gold
#container
  .wrapper
    | Hello Gold

becomes

<h1 id="title" class="main-title">Welcome to Gold</h1>
<div id="container">
	<div class="wrapper">Hello Gold</div>
</div>

JavaScript

javascript:
  alert(1);
  alert(2);

script type=text/javascript
  alert(3);
  alert(4);

becomes

<script type="text/javascript">
	alert(1);
	alert(2);
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
	alert(3);
	alert(4);
</script>

Style

style
  h1 {color: red;}
  p {color: blue;}

becomes

<style>
	h1 {color: red;}
	p {color: blue;}
</style>

Comments

div
  p Hello Gold 1
  // p Hello Gold 2
//
  div
    p Hello Gold 3
    p Hello Gold 4
div
    p Hello Gold 5

becomes

<div>
	<p>Hello Gold 1</p>
</div>
<div>
	<p>Hello Gold 5</p>
</div>

Includes

Following Gold template includes ./index.gold.

p Hello Gold
include ./index name=Foo

./index.gold

p Included tempalte
input type=text value=%{name}

Inheritance

Gold tamplates can inherit other Gold templates as below:

parent.gold

doctype html
html
  head
    title Gold
  body
    block content
    footer
      block footer

child.gold

extends ./parent

block content
  #container
    | Hello Gold

block footer
  .footer
    | Copyright XXX

the above Gold templates generate the following HTML:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
	<head>
		<title>Gold</title>
	</head>
	<body>
		<div id="container">Hello Gold</div>
		<footer>
			<div class="footer">Copyright XXX</div>
		</footer>
	</body>
</html>

Optional Blocks

You can set a default value to the blocks as below:

parent.gold

doctype html
html
  head
    block title
      title Default Title

child1.gold

extends ./parent

block title
  title Child1 Title

child2.gold

extends ./parent

child1.gold template generates the following HTML:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
	<head>
		<title>Child1 Title</title>
	</head>
</html>

child2.gold template generates the following HTML:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
	<head>
		<title>Default Title</title>
	</head>
</html>

Expressions

You can embed text/template package's expressions into Gold templates because Gold template wraps this package's Template. text/template package's documentation describes its expressions in detail.

div
  {{if .IsProduction}}
    p This is a production code.
  {{end}}
div
  {{range .Rows}}
    p {{.}}
  {{end}}

You can use an equal mark(=) to output an expression value:

div
  = .Title

the above code is equivalent to the blow code:

div
  {{.Title}}

Load templates from binary data generated by go-bindata

You can load templates from binary data generated by go-bindata by setting the Asset function (which is generated by go-bindata) to the generator.

package main

import (
	"os"

	"github.com/yosssi/gold"
)

// Set the `Asset` function generated by go-bindata to the `generator`.
var g = gold.NewGenerator(true).SetAsset(Asset)

func main() {
	tpl, err := g.ParseFile("templates/top.gold")

	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}

	data := map[string]interface{}{"Title": "Gold"}

	err = tpl.Execute(os.Stdout, data)

	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
}

Parse template strings

You can parse template strings and load templates from memory by using the generator's ParseString method.

package main

import (
	"net/http"

	"github.com/yosssi/gold"
)

// Create a generator which parses a Gold templates and
// returns a html/template package's template.
// You can have a generator cache templates by passing
// true to NewGenerator function.
var g = gold.NewGenerator(true)

func handler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {

	// template strings
	parent := `
doctype html
html
  head
    title Gold
  body
    block content
    footer
      block footer
`
	child := `
extends parent

block content
  #container
    | Hello Gold

block footer
  .footer
    | Copyright XXX
`

	stringTemplates := map[string]string{"parent": parent, "child": child}

	// ParseString parses a Gold template strings and
	// returns an html/template package's template.
	tpl, err := g.ParseString(stringTemplates, "child")

	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}

	data := map[string]interface{}{"Title": "Gold"}

	// Call Execute method of the html/template
	// package's template.
	err = tpl.Execute(w, data)

	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
}

func main() {
	http.HandleFunc("/", handler)
	http.ListenAndServe(":8080", nil)
}

Templates base directory

You can set a base directory of Gold templates by calling Generetor.SetBaseDir():

  var g = gold.NewGenerator(true).SetBaseDir("/tmp/gold-templates")

Debug writer

You can set a debug writer to the Gold generator so that you can inspect the intermediate HTML source codes generated by Gold:

var g = gold.NewGenerator(false).SetPrettyPrint(true).SetDebugWriter(os.Stdout)

Get intermediate HTML source codes

Generator.ParseFileWithHTML and Generator.ParseStringWithHTML return intermediate HTML source codes which Gold generates. You can write these HTML source codes for debugging.

Example:

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"html/template"
	"net/http"

	"github.com/yosssi/gohtml"
	"github.com/yosssi/gold"
)

var g = gold.NewGenerator(false).SetPrettyPrint(true)

func handler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {

	parent := `
doctype html
html
  head
    title {{.Title}}
  body
    block content
    footer
      block footer
`
	child := `
extends parent

block content
  #container
    {{.Msg.NotExistProperty}}
block footer
  .footer
    | Copyright XXX
`

	stringTemplates := map[string]string{"parent": parent, "child": child}

	tpl, html, err := g.ParseStringWithHTML(stringTemplates, "child")

	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}

	data := map[string]interface{}{"Title": "Gold", "Msg": "Hello!"}

	err = tpl.Execute(w, data)

	if err != nil {
		fmt.Fprintf(w, "<pre>Error:\n%s\nHTML:\n%s</pre>", err.Error(), gohtml.AddLineNo(template.HTMLEscapeString(html)))
	}
}

func main() {
	http.HandleFunc("/", handler)
	http.ListenAndServe(":8080", nil)
}

Output:

Error:
template: child:10:12: executing "child" at <.Msg.NotExistPropert...>: can't evaluate field NotExistProperty in type interface {}
HTML:
 1  <!DOCTYPE html>
 2  <html>
 3    <head>
 4      <title>
 5        {{.Title}}
 6      </title>
 7    </head>
 8    <body>
 9      <div id="container">
10        {{.Msg.NotExistProperty}}
11      </div>
12      <footer>
13        <div class="footer">
14          Copyright XXX
15        </div>
16      </footer>
17    </body>
18  </html>

Pretty Print

You can format the result HTML source codes by using GoHTML package. gohtml.Writer formats HTML source codes and writes them.

Example:

package main

import (
	"os"

	"github.com/yosssi/gohtml"
	"github.com/yosssi/gold"
)

var g = gold.NewGenerator(false)

func main() {
	// template strings
	parent := `
doctype html
html
  head
    title Gold
  body
    block content
    footer
      block footer
`
	child := `
extends parent

block content
  #container
    = .Msg

block footer
  .footer
    | Copyright XXX
`

	stringTemplates := map[string]string{"parent": parent, "child": child}

	tpl, err := g.ParseString(stringTemplates, "child")

	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}

	data := map[string]interface{}{"Msg": "Hello, Gold!"}

	err = tpl.Execute(gohtml.NewWriter(os.Stdout), data)

	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
}

Output:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>
      Gold
    </title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <div id="container">
      Hello, Gold!
    </div>
    <footer>
      <div class="footer">
        Copyright XXX
      </div>
    </footer>
  </body>
</html>

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