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I've been work on a proof of concept with Wails and it's a productive development loop. The only thing different about the front end code vs a website is that it calls functions generated from my Go back end (fully typed!) instead of making an HTTP call.

The end result is a single binary. I suspect there's interesting things to be built as small extensions/compliments to command line tools.

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> The only thing different about the front end code vs a website is that it calls functions generated from my Go back end (fully typed!) instead of making an HTTP call

Now take it to the next level: put those functions in a service worker and create a REST API that works entirely locally and can be switched out for a remote server with ease.

Or don’t, if you have no intention of making a web version. But IMO it’s a powerful model for those who do.

That's an interesting point about service workers. My thinking is to layer them in the other order: the generated types are based on Go struct json tags so the function signatures I'm calling could be implemented as REST calls. ie SomeEndpoint(paramA: string, paramB: string): Promise<SomeEndpointResponse>

The notion of a web version is a distant one for the current project so it's only a theory.

Not...that...far... :-)

This sounds really cool and makes me want to learn go so I can make some desktop apps...

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