Suggestions for writing better code

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I’m becoming more confident with Hugo and my ability to code the functionality I need. Still asking for help here and there so I still have a long way to go which is fine.

My question is pretty open-ended, but what should I be thinking about now that I’m not only concerned with getting the functionality I want but also on writing clean and maintainable code.

In terms of Hugo, I’m interested in understanding more what functions to avoid due to performance, is creating a range within a range or using multiple where statements suboptimal etc.

Any concrete examples of how to write effective Go templates would be appreciated.

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Here’a current example to show more of what I’m trying to understand. I can achieve the same result doing either

{{$sections := (.Site.GetPage "section" "books").Sections}}
{{range $sections}
{{.Title}}
{{end}}

or

{{range where (where .Site.Pages "Section" "books") "Layout" "eq" "keyword"}}
{{.Title}}
{{end}}

Which is better?

Thanks to @kaushalmodi suggestion, I’ve played around with --templateMetrics. And run the above code as partials. It seems the first option is preferred, but that’s as an average from running --templateMetrics a few times.

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Try hugo --templateMetrics --templateMetricsHints. That will help you quite a bit to narrow down to the slowest guys in your template.

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Check out the use of where + intersect if you need to nest where expressions.