Template File Processing in Go

process-file.go

package main

import (
    "os"
    "text/template"
)

func main() {
    // variables
    vars := make(map[string]interface{})
    vars["Greeting"] = "Hello"
    vars["Name"] = "Dev"

    // parse the template
    tmpl, _ := template.ParseFiles("templates/greeting.tmpl")

    // create a new file
    file, _ := os.Create("greeting.txt")
    defer file.Close()

    // apply the template to the vars map and write the result to file.
    tmpl.Execute(file, vars)
}

templates-greeting.tmpl

{{.Greeting}} {{.Name}}!