Even though I know they're well-designed, I find Go's web templates hard to work in. So I avoid them.

My stack is basically:

- Postgres, using pq and sqlx

- A codegen ORM I wrote that scrapes schemas and generates CRUD and lookup functions for all my database types. I don't think dynamic ORMs like gorm are the way to go for Go.

- A session library I wrote a year ago, and simple Go wrapper handlers to require sessions, enforce authentication, &c, passing things like "current user" and "current session" down to standard net/http Handlers through Context.

- 10-or-so JSON utility functions I take with me from project to project.

- React, via create-react-app, so I all my templating is done in JSX.

- net/http/httptest for testing.