typescriptify-golang-structs VS Wails

I've used https://github.com/tkrajina/typescriptify-golang-structs and it's worked for me so far, relatively simple so you can be up in minutes.

I have been looking into various ways of doing this properly, including openapi, swagger and grpc, connect-go etc. My conclusion is that these are overkill for this project and that something like https://github.com/tkrajina/typescriptify-golang-structs which generates typescript definitions from go structs, are probably more than enough.

I use this tool to compile go structs to typescript types for integration w frontend

I'm curious if you looked at https://github.com/tkrajina/typescriptify-golang-structs, and if so, what it does that you didn't want.

This is basically the same tech stack of an app I’ve been planning to build, but deployed as a desktop application using Wails: https://github.com/wailsapp/wails

Wails 2.6k

The wails project does this when. You can check it out here https://github.com/wailsapp/wails/blob/master/v2/internal/typescriptify/typescriptify.go for inspection.

I have built Web front-ends (React or Svelte) with Go-backend. Embed in a web-view to make it a native desktop app, or get funky and give it native chrome/menus etc. [Wails](https://github.com/wailsapp/wails) is a good candidate to start if you want to cut on boiler plate.

Is that what wails is doing here? (On mobile)

In a "local" environment, where an executable can be provided to someone with the entire game contents. In this case, the game won't use WebSockets, and will instead use a Go/JS bridge (something like Wails) to connect.

Have you seen wails? https://github.com/wailsapp/wails

You should check out https://github.com/wailsapp/wails/pull/1959