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Explain the following code

{{ $data := index site.Data site.Language.Lang }}

{{ if $data.about.about.enable }}
{{ with $data.about.about }}
{{"<!-- Start About Section -->" | safeHTML}}
<section class="bg-one about section" id="about">
	<div class="container">
		<div class="row justify-content-center">
			<div class="col-lg-12">
				{{"<!-- section title -->" | safeHTML}}
				<div class="title text-center wow fadeIn" data-wow-duration="1500ms">
					<h2> {{ with .title }} {{ index (split . " ") 0 | safeHTML }} {{ end }}<span class="color">
						{{ with .title }} {{ index (split . " ") 1 | safeHTML }} {{ end }} </span></h2>
					<div class="border-meghna"></div>
				</div>
			</div>
			{{"<!-- /section title -->" | safeHTML}}

			{{ range .about_item }}
			{{"<!-- About item -->" | safeHTML}}
			<div class="col-lg-4 text-center wow fadeInUp" data-wow-duration="500ms">
				<div class="block">
					<div class="icon-box">
						{{with .icon}}<i class="{{ . }}"></i>{{ end }}
					</div>
					{{"<!-- Express About Yourself -->" | safeHTML}}
					<div class="content text-center">
						<h3>{{ .title }}</h3>
						<p>{{ .content | markdownify }}</p>
					</div>
				</div>
			</div>
			{{ end }}
		</div>
	</div>
</section>
{{"<!-- /about -->" | safeHTML}}
{{ end }}
{{ end }}

Genie

This code snippet is written in a template language often used with static site generators like Hugo. It’s intended to be processed by the generator which populates it with data from other parts of the site to produce HTML for a webpage.

Here’s a breakdown of what each part of the code does:

• {{ $data := index site.Data site.Language.Lang }}
  This line initializes a variable $data with content from a data file that corresponds to the currently selected language of the site.

• {{ if $data.about.about.enable }}
  Here, it uses an if statement to check whether the about section is enabled in the configuration. The rest of the about section will only be rendered if this condition evaluates to true.

• {{ with $data.about.about }}
  This is another control structure that scopes the context to the about section defined in $data. Inside this block, any reference to . (dot) pertains to $data.about.about.

• {{"<!-- Start About Section -->" | safeHTML}}
  Inserts an HTML comment into the output. The safeHTML filter is used to prevent the comment from being escaped.

• <section class="bg-one about section" id="about">... </section>
  This section of HTML defines the about section on the page, with appropriate classes and an ID.

Inside the about section, there is a nested template:

• A title div containing an h2 element for the section title.

  • {{ with .title }} {{ index (split . " ") 0 | safeHTML }} {{ end }}
    This code extracts the first word of the title and marks it as safe HTML.
  • <span class="color">{{ with .title }} {{ index (split . " ") 1 | safeHTML }} {{ end }}</span>
    This code similarly extracts the second word of the title and wraps it in a span with a color class.

• There is also an iteration over about_item:

  • {{ range .about_item }}
    Loops over each item in the about section’s list of items.

  • Inside the loop, there are several div elements with classes defining their appearance and behavior (like icon-box and block).

    • {{with .icon}}<i class="{{ . }}"></i>{{ end }}
      Inserts an <i> element with a class defined by the icon field of the current about item. This is typically used for including icon fonts like Font Awesome.

    • {{"<!-- Express About Yourself -->" | safeHTML}}
      Another HTML comment inserted using safeHTML.

    • The actual content of the about item is rendered using nested h3 and p tags. The paragraph text is processed by the markdownify filter, which converts Markdown syntax into HTML.

• Finally, at the end of all blocks, there are closing {{ end }} statements corresponding to each open {{ with ... }} and {{ if ... }} to properly close the control structures.

In summary, this code defines a dynamic about section for a website where the existence and content of the section are based on a configuration object pulled from the site’s data. If the about section is enabled, it goes through each about item and renders it with custom titles, icons, and content.