Star Rating for hugo sites

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@RickCogley

If you yourself want to do star ratings on posts, that has always been possible. For instance you could put the rating as an integer or string in content frontmatter, like rating = ★★★ , then pull the rating into your Hugo templates.

This seems very easy and straightforward. It is not (for me) lol

I have the frontmatter in the form of myrating: 5 but converting this number to stars is killing brain cells here. And of course I want a more complicated setup with x gold stars out of 5 stars, with the rest of the stars being grey. I tried a ‘range’ loop from some random site but get errors. Any help you could provide would be greatly appreciated.