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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 ...

Introduction to Go's Make Function

Jun 6, 2025 · 1 min read · In my two previous blog posts, I wrote about how to create stacks and queues using the struct data type, which is specifically helpful when one wants to define a maximum capacity for the queue/stack. We can also define a maximum capacity for a slice ...