gomodest-template VS Alpine.js

Its too early for a roadmap. I have tried different approaches and rejected them: https://github.com/adnaan/gomodest-template, https://github.com/goliveview/examples. I want the library to be have a great UX, good for moderately complex apps while building tech which is maintainable(no new rendering layer engine). I could use some help brainstorming the approaches though.

Oh wow someone finally went ahead with the server rendered js in Go ! Looks great. I have been experimenting various ways to build web apps in Go: https://github.com/adnaan/gomodest-template. I have landed on pursuing one approach more deeply: server rendered html templates over websockets. Don’t have a lot of code right now but here are some examples: https://github.com/goliveview/examples.

Since early this year, I started working on https://gomodest-template.fly.dev/samples, https://github.com/adnaan/gomodest-template to experiment with various ways to build user interfaces in Go, html and a bit of javascript. Now, I have taken all the learnings from gomodest-template and started working on https://github.com/goliveview/ . Its super early work.

So I have been exploring server side rendered Go web apps using only sprinkles & spots of javascript: source: gomodest-template , live demo .

I have built an app template which uses Go html/template package to render html on the server. The app is enhanced using sprinkles of javascript(stimulusjs, svelte single file components) on the client, wherever needed.

1. template: https://github.com/adnaan/gomodest-template

gomodest-template

Alpine.js for reactive frontend

✨ In recent months, I have been developing web projects using GOTTHA stack: Go + Templ + Tailwind CSS + htmx + Alpine.js. As soon as I'm ready to talk about all the subtleties and pitfalls, I'll post it on my social networks.

> But honestly, torn towards htmx but undecided.

We are in the middle of migrating from our monster react application into server rendered pages (with jinja2). The velocity at which we are able to ship and the reduction of complexity has been great so far.

Managing client side state for simple things like (is the dropdown open/closed), listening to keyboard events and such can be done with something like alpine-js [1] without all the baggage that something like react brings.

It appears this is already the trend with JS frameworks too - with server side rendering being the new norm.

[1] https://alpinejs.dev/

Sure, you can use any number of JS-avoidance libraries. I'm a fan of Turbo, and there's also htmx, Unpoly, Alpine, hyperscript, swup, barba.js, and probably others.

Direct DOM, but with a library. Specifically AlpineJS since it follows Vue closely in design practices allowing me to scale into a full web application if necessary (basically swapping to Vue takes minimal work). The Morph plugin is specifically what I like using.

If you want more details on the initial setup I encourage you to take a look at the Part I that covers more of the initial implementation. For this portion, I added Prisma as an ORM, a frontend style library called Tachyons, and AlpineJS to handle any client-side interactions. I did this to avoid needing to add a client-side bundler to the build and instead just rely on plain old module imports to compose the frontend. This is now the default for Rails and it is quite nice to not need any additional build tools for the client.

- [swallow-pywebview](https://github.com/rangwea/swallow-pywebview)： Base on [pywebview](https://pywebview.flowrl.com/) using Python，the frontend base on [alpinejs](https://alpinejs.dev/) and [tailwindcss](https://tailwindcss.com/)。

If you’ve followed our other tutorials, you might be familiar with Alpine.js. It’s a lightweight JavaScript library that allows you to add interactivity to your site without writing a single line of JavaScript. It’s incredibly easy to use, and we’ll show you how to make the animation trigger when the user scrolls to it.

The approach is not new, essentially a variation of Knockout, Alpine, and similar "JS-in-HTML" approaches.