refactor: template renderer cleanup

render_templates.go

@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+// Template rendering
+//
+// Abstracts the rendering of static HTML templates.
+// Render(...) handles rendering the provided template with the
+// default partial templates (header, footer, general base...), handles
+// getting the paths to those template files and feeding the data (including
+// some internally-generated context) when hydrating the template.
 package main
 
 import (
@@ -8,6 +15,15 @@ import (
 	"time"
 )
 
+type RenderMeta struct {
+	RenderStart time.Time
+}
+
+type RenderContext struct {
+	Data interface{}
+	Meta RenderMeta
+}
+
 func getRenderDuration(start time.Time) time.Duration {
 	return time.Now().Sub(start)
 }
@@ -35,14 +51,7 @@ func Render(w io.Writer, templateName string, data interface{}) error {
 		return err
 	}
 
-	type RenderMeta struct {
+	renderContext := RenderContext{Data: data, Meta: RenderMeta{RenderStart: start}}
-		RenderStart time.Time
-	}
 
-	type RenderContext struct {
+	return tmpl.ExecuteTemplate(w, "base", renderContext)
-		Data interface{}
-		Meta RenderMeta
-	}
-
-	return tmpl.ExecuteTemplate(w, "base", RenderContext{Data: data, Meta: RenderMeta{RenderStart: start}})
 }