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Explore five different real world use cases for closures that will help you understand and utilize closures better in your own code.

An explanation of what anonymous functions and closures are, along with examples of how to create and use them in Go (aka Golang).

In this post Jon covers what a test is, along with how to write everything from a basic test to a more complicated test that requires custom setup/teardown.

Learn how to create a reusable view layer to simplify HTML rendering. This includes creating a shared layout, defining default templates that can be overridden, and including the same templates across various pages without putting all of the code into a single file.

Go's template package provides many useful built-in functions. Learn to use a few of the more common ones, as well as how to add custom fucntions to your templates so that you can add any functionality you need.

Learn how to perform common operations with strings in Go. This article discusses how to write multiline strings, concatenate strings efficiently, convert various data types into strings, checking for prefixes, and converting strings to byte slices.