@AlissaL

Connecting to SQL Database with Go

4d ago · 2 min read · The HTML and text templates, discussed in my previous few blog posts, are two of the many packages that become powerful tools when working with large datasets. Henceforth, my next series of blog posts

Templates: Introduction to HTML Templates

Jul 31, 2025 · 2 min read · There are many scenarios in which we want to create templates suitable for web applications. It is possible to write HTML templates dynamically using the text/template package, however using html/template makes your HTML templates injection-safe as i...

Templates: Using Actions, Functions, and Custom Functions

Jul 28, 2025 · 4 min read · My previous blog post introduced the feature of actions in templates. Another very similar feature is a function, which can be used together with an action to perform additional operations on the data. For example, {{ range }} is an action as it cont...

How to Create Plaintext Reports in Go Using Templates with Loops and Conditionals

Jul 1, 2025 · 3 min read · My previous blog post introduced templates in Go by demoing how to produce a simple string using the template.New().Parse function. In this blog post, I will go over the steps on how to use the text/template package with loops and conditional logic t...

Introduction to Go Templates

Jun 13, 2025 · 2 min read · Using templates in Go is a great way to produce content in a dynamic way. Go makes it possible to prepare content for display as pure text (by using the text/template package or as HTML with proper encoding (by using the html/template package). Both ...