A fluent HTML builder for Go built directly from the HTML Living Standard.
Instead of creating HTML using string concatenation or templates, Gostar allows you to create HTML using a fluent API. This allows you to create HTML in a more natural way, and makes it easier to create HTML programmatically. It does that by building directly from the HTML Living Standard and introspecting to creating automated conversions for all HTML elements and attributes.
Just import the package. I prefer dot imports so I don't have to type the package name over and over. All HTML tags and attributes are uppercase to avoid collisions with Go keywords and make explicit what is a DSL.
import . "github.com/delaneyj/gostar/elements"Since everything is just fluent functions you can compose them together to create more complex HTML structures. You can also create your own fluent functions to create reusable HTML components.
// A couple common structs that could be models in your
// application.
type (
Navigation struct {
Link string
Item string
}
User struct {
FirstName string
RawContent string
EscapedContent string
}
)
// ElementRenderer functions for HTML portions of your
// application.
var (
header = func(title string) ElementRenderer {
return HEADER(
TITLE().TextF("%s's Home Page", title),
DIV().CLASS("header").Text("Page Header"),
)
}
navigation = func(nav []*Navigation) ElementRenderer {
return NAV(
UL(
Range(nav, func(n *Navigation) ElementRenderer {
return LI(
A().HREF(n.Link).Text(n.Item),
)
}),
).CLASS("navigation"),
)
}
footer = func() ElementRenderer {
return FOOTER(DIV().CLASS("footer").Text("copyright 2016"))
}
index = func(u *User, nav []*Navigation, title string) ElementRenderer {
return Group(
Text("<!DOCTYPE html>"),
HTML(
BODY(
header(title),
navigation(nav),
SECTION(
DIV(
DIV(
H4().TextF("Hello %s", u.FirstName),
DIV().CLASS("raw").Text(u.RawContent),
DIV().CLASS("enc").Escaped(u.EscapedContent),
).CLASS("welcome"),
Range(lo.Range(5), func(i int) ElementRenderer {
count := i + 1
return Tern(
count == 1,
P().TextF("%s has %d message", u.FirstName, count),
P().TextF("%s has %d messages", u.FirstName, count),
)
}),
).CLASS("content"),
),
footer(),
),
),
)
}
)
// An index handler to render the generated index page.
func indexHandler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
user := &User{
FirstName: "John",
RawContent: `<a href="http://john.com">This is some raw content</a>`,
EscapedContent: `<a href="http://john.com">This is some encoded content</a>`,
}
nav := []*Navigation{
{Link: "/home", Item: "Home"},
{Link: "/about", Item: "About"},
}
index(user, nav, "John").Render(w)
}Testing shows it's faster than Go builtin template/html package but this is including creating and writing to a buffer. It's still sub-microsecond for most pages and the convenience of the fluent API is worth it. Avoiding the parse, setup template context, then execute loop mean way less work for the developer.