When i start using Gin i struggling with template system. I find out many people have the same problem.

I have found some code in Github (multitemplate.go, gin_html_render.go) which help but not everything i need is supported like Template helpers.

Check it out my package in official gin contribute repository: gin-gonic/contrib

• Simple rendering syntax for the template

  // suppose "app/views/articles/list.html" is your file to be rendered
  c.HTML(http.StatusOK, "articles/list", "")

• Configure layout file
• Configure template file extension
• Configure templates directory
• Feels friendlier for people coming from communities like rails, express or django.
• Template Helpers (gin_html_render.go is not support yet)

Supports rails style partials, simply name any template with underscore starting. So If you have "dashboard/index.tmpl" add "dashboard/_header.tmpl". Also there is a shared partial directory called "partials" under your template directory, anything you put there will be included with all templates.

dashboard/_header.tmpl - define the template name

{{define "header"}}
  <h1>Hi, This is Header</h1>
{{ end }}

dashboard/index.tmpl - call partial template by it's name

{{define "content"}}
  Bla Bla Bla...
  {{template "header" .}}
{{ end }}

Suppose your structure is

|-- app/views/
    |-- layouts/
        |--- base.html
    |-- blogs/
        |--- index.html          
        |--- show.html
See in "example" folder

go get https://github.com/michelloworld/ez-gin-template

import eztemplate "github.com/michelloworld/ez-gin-template"

  r := gin.Default()
  render := eztemplate.New()
  // render.TemplatesDir = "app/views/" // default
  // render.Layout = "layouts/base"     // default
  // render.Ext = ".html"               // default
  // render.Debug = false               // default
  // render.TemplateFuncMap = template.FuncMap{}
  r.HTMLRender = render.Init()
  r.Run(":9000")

I hope this package will resolve your problem about template system. and give you an idea about how to use template helpers in Gin framework

Thanks, multitemplate.go, gin_html_render.go for the idea