Ask HN: Are you using Go for web development?

• mux

  86 17,948 2.6 Go

  Discontinued A powerful HTTP router and URL matcher for building Go web servers with 🦍

  

We use it. Gorilla mux (https://github.com/gorilla/mux) to route requests plus some in-house handler chains that log, check JWT tokens, etc. We have a Go client library which accesses the web API, so we can do testing without having to involve the frontend team; a combination of tests in the client library and some judicious curl commands is usually enough.

• go-starter

  3 436 6.6 Go

  An opinionated production-ready SQL-/Swagger-first RESTful JSON API written in Go, highly integrated with VSCode DevContainers by allaboutapps.

  

Yes, monolithic Go RESTful JSON API services - we currently depend on go-swagger, SQLBoiler (PostgreSQL) and echo.

Workflow: we use VSCode with devContainers (docker-compose local dev env), our tasks are simply defined in a Makefile. Our high-lvl dev workflow is documented here: https://github.com/allaboutapps/go-starter/wiki/FAQ#how-does...

Difficulties: Nothing special actually. We switched from Node.js to Go in the beginning of 2020 and it's been a pleasure for our new projects (software agency). I thought it was going to be hard to onboard our staff / new hires to Go and our stack, but this really turned out to be a non issue.

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• doubleboiler

  1 3 7.8 CSS

  A full stack Go app boilerplate

Yep. I write code in vim, run tests and orchestrate things with Make and I deploy to Google Cloud Run. I used to use k8s.

I write monoliths and render mostly HTML back to the client. I have a few json endpoints around for m2m APIs or to power search boxes here and there.

The main thing I’m hacking on at the moment is https://clubman.app other things are listed at https://notbad.software

A relatively up to date skeleton of my apps is at https://github.com/davidbanham/doubleboiler

• eventhorizon

  5 1,544 3.8 Go

  Event Sourcing for Go!

  

Consultant using Go in a few client projects. Both use build-in-Docker for stability and less CI surprises. One uses GRPC with Profobuf, another is using an event sourcing toolkit I have authored [0]. Personally I use VSCode with gopls which has been working great for quiet some time now. Ordinary male files for combined documentation and usage of common operations.

[0] https://github.com/looplab/eventhorizon

• pongo2

  12 2,779 1.0 Go

  Django-syntax like template-engine for Go

Working on a new project and part of it is web development, we're moving forward with some pain.

We use Fiber (https://gofiber.io) as web framework and Pongo2 (https://github.com/flosch/pongo2) as template engine. The Go/Fiber parts are ok, the pain is template engine.

- Pongo2 syntax is like Django/Jinja2, but not as easy as Jinja2. I use Python+Jinja2 for years in production, it's so easy to use and troubleshoot.

• ent

  145 14,930 8.1 Go

  An entity framework for Go

  

All of that is already built via libraries. Talking about facebook, they released an ORM a a while ago[1] and it has support for all the things you mention.

[1] https://github.com/ent/ent

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