Prototype Stack #

Motivation #

As frontend grows in complexity, we're reminded of simpler times with server-rendered HTML. At the same time I've grown to really love the composability of React components.

My hope is that this is a viable web stack, where I can put all of the domain logic in one place. Regardless of it's a first render, or responding to a request.

Stack #

• Go
• Tailwind
• Templ
• HTMX
• Repository pattern
• SQLite

Tech evaluations #

• Evaluate routers
  • ~echo~: Seems to work fine, nothing special though
  • ServeMux: Getting better in Go 1.22 - trying to keep this minimal
• Evaluate various database layers
  • ~Ent~: If was building an enterprise app, yes
  • ~Gorm~: Good/Bad: 80/20. The bad is too high.
  • Manual: Works, minimal. We're going with minimal.
• When HTMX isn't enough?
  • Hyperscript?

Tasks #

• Play more with templ
• Add SQLite
• Read items from database
• Update items in database
• Serve /public for CSS
• Embed assets into binary
• Experiment with SQLite, maybe Gorm

Global install deps #

• go install github.com/pressly/goose/v3/cmd/goose@latest
• go install github.com/a-h/templ/cmd/templ@latest