text/template

Web
import "text/template"

Implements data-driven templates for generating textual output (email, config files, etc.).

Example

package main

import (
    "os"
    "text/template"
)

func main() {
    t := template.Must(template.New("msg").Parse("Hello, {{.}}!\n"))
    t.Execute(os.Stdout, "World")
}

Key Types & Functions

TemplateMustNewParseExecuteFuncMap

About text/template

The text/template package (imported as text/template) belongs to the Web category of Go packages. Implements data-driven templates for generating textual output (email, config files, etc.).

Go's standard library is one of the language's greatest strengths, providing production-ready implementations for networking, cryptography, encoding, I/O, and more. The text/template package follows Go's philosophy of simplicity and composability — small, focused packages that combine through interfaces like io.Reader and io.Writer.

When using text/template in production, follow Go best practices: handle errors explicitly, use context for cancellation and timeouts, prefer composition over inheritance, and write table-driven tests. The Go documentation at pkg.go.dev provides comprehensive API references and examples for every exported type and function.

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