As of December 1st, 2019 Buffalo, and all related packages, require Go Modules and the use of the GOPATH is no longer supported.

Please see this blog post for more information https://blog.gobuffalo.io/the-road-to-1-0-requiring-modules-5672c6b015e5.

Templating

This document only applies when using https://github.com/gobuffalo/buffalo/render.
Please see github.com/gobuffalo/plush for more details on the underlying templating package.

Buffalo defaults to using plush as its template engine.

General Usage

// templates/index.html
<h1><%= name %>
<ul>
  <%= for (name) in names { %>
    <li><%= name %>
  <% } %>
</ul>

// actions/index.go
func IndexHandler(c buffalo.Context) error {
  c.Set("name", "Mark")
  c.Set("names", []string{"John", "Paul", "George", "Ringo"})
  return c.Render(200, r.HTML("index.html"))
}

// output
<h1>Mark
<ul>
  <li>John
  <li>Paul
  <li>George
  <li>Ringo
</ul>

If Statements

<%= if (true) { %>
  <!-- render this -->
<% } %>

Else Statements

<%= if (false) { %>
  <!-- won't render this -->
<% } else { %>
  <!-- render this -->
<% } %>