Template library

[bouncepaw]

We use the quicktemplate library for almost all of HTML templating tasks in the project.

Contra:

• Yet another dependency (all dependencies fail and are not to be trusted)
• Yet another non-standard thing
• We have twice as many files (.qtpl and .qtpl.go)
• People are irritated for some reason?

Pro:

• The core idea of the library (templates are normal Go functions) makes sense
• The syntax of the templating language is very expressive
• The library is quite fast, they say

I do not think changing quicktemplate to any other non-stdlib templating solution is a good idea. But what about stdlib's html/template?

=> https://godocs.io/html/template

Contra:

• The API is ridiculous. You have to parse each template (and that may fail) and then you have to ‘execute’ it (and that may fail too). Simply unbearable
• If we use html/template, it will be easier to implement template configuration, which is undesirable

Pro:

• It is in stdlib
• If we store the templates as separate .html files, every text editor will have a proper syntax highlighting. Compare with .qtpl which requires additional configuration everywhere

So, what is better? Cross your sword!

[bouncepaw]

After like six experiments, I'm starting to like this approach:

• stdlib templates
• l10n are done using {{block}} in place in English
• they are then redefined for Russian for Russian versions of templates

Take a look at how categories views are done.

This approach also covers #138.