Go-bootstrap

This library allows you to easily generate Bootstrap in Go. Besides this it provides the ability to generate Bootstrap forms and tables from Golangs structs. An example is given in cmd/go-bootstrap/main.go of using a User struct. This project uses Go test for testing purposes.

Technical information

Basic HTML Elements/project core

This project at its core has a very simple Go interface, which can be found at cmd/go-bootstrap/htmlwrapper/htmlwrapper.go:

type Elm interface {
	AsHTML() (string, error)
}

All generated HTML elements in this project adhere to this interface, meaning that it can be easily extended. However, to make it easier the following structs are available and used to generate the HTML:

• TextElm, for text content, a helper/factory function called Text is available to make this element.
• HTMLElm, for HTML elmement allowing you to set the tag, its attributes, and contents of more elements following the Elm interface.
• MultiElm, provides the ability to wrap an array of Elm objects into a single Elm object. Making the interface standardized, even if you want to return multiple elements.

Bootstrap

All bootstrap elements are available underneath cmd/go-bootstrap/bootstrap. Basically this part of the package contains lots of factories which make (nested) Elm objects. Each file in the directory focuses on a bootstrap element. Except for, generic.go, which contains the constants used, so things like bootstrap CSS class names for colors, sizes, states, etc. Which is used in the other files. This folder allows you to basically put together most of a page if you're using Bootstrap.

Element generation

However, some of the pages (mostly CRUD pages) would become quite repetitive in the code written. To reduce this, some builders are made, they can be found at cmd/go-bootstrap/builder. At least the following builders can be found there:

• Dropdown, for making dropdown elements.
• Form, for making forms from Go structs, allowing renaming, non-native datatype handlers, reordering, removing and adding form elements.
• Input, for making input elements.
• Pagination Basic, for making Bootstrap pagination elements.
• Table, for generation of tables from Go struct arrays. Allowing renaming of columns columns, reordering, removing columns, adding custom columns, and allowing setting handlers of non-native datatypes.
• Table advanced, same as Table but with pagination.