almanack VS Listmonk

You need to add the base template to the ParseFS call. The code here is more complicated than it needs to be. You don’t need to go through the FS yourself. The template parser can do that for you. Look at this example which doesn’t use a base template but could: https://github.com/spotlightpa/almanack/blob/master/layouts/layouts.go You would just change it to

For me, GetBooks is a method on a query object and a query object has a DBTX interface struct field. So if I don’t need a transaction, I just use the normal DB as the DBTX but if I do, I call a method to open a TX first and use that. https://github.com/spotlightpa/almanack/blob/master/internal/db/db.go

Pagination is just an offset and a limit. There’s another package that handles the math for you: https://github.com/spotlightpa/almanack/blob/master/internal/paginate/paginate.go

You can have methods on the SQLC structs. They just need to be in a separate file. See https://github.com/spotlightpa/almanack/blob/master/internal/db/page.go eg.

So far, just refactoring. I made a concurrency manager to simplify some stuff, and unified some pagination code. It’s like we said before generics: there are places you miss it, but not having it was never a total blocker. I think going working the x/slices x/maps packages will be the biggest time savers.

I ended up shipping this as a similar autocomplete field: https://github.com/spotlightpa/almanack/blob/master/src/comp...

It's a little different because I put the chosen selections on a row above the input row, but the principle is the same.

https://github.com/spotlightpa/almanack/blob/master/internal/herokuapi/herokuapi_test.go#L14:L21

I’m using Chi not Gorilla, but you can see my JWT Auth middleware here: https://github.com/spotlightpa/almanack/blob/master/pkg/api/routes.go#L37

I have mainly name and email fields in the newsletter signup and there is no verification. Then I manually blacklisted all the bots in the email service Listmonk.

Listmonk – An open-source alternative to Mailchimp just released version 3. It’s great as a stand-alone newsletter. Also seems like a low lift for capturing leads for side projects.

Here is another great self hosted solution that I came across. Really high performance (written in Go). No affiliation but well done open source product.

https://listmonk.app

When I searched for this I had a very hard time finding a right answer because all the results were SEO blogs advertising their newsletter services (Mailchimp, Convertkit, etc.), which is not the same thing.

So I wrote this overview covering all the options I found. Additional input is welcome.

Even though Listmonk seems like the best free & open source option, there aren't many guides for it and the documentation is quite limited. So [I've been having trouble getting it running on a CentOS server](https://github.com/knadh/listmonk/issues/1004#issuecomment-1...).

It's a shame that it seems to be used by thousands of people but almost no one bothers to create guides or improve the docs.