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If only I had known about this (or judging by commit history, if it existed) ~3 weeks ago. I've been saying for ages that either React ported to Go or a React-like framework for Go would be an incredible development experience, so this looks perfect (I used to be a big hater of React.js until I was enlightened by React.lua).

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I had the same problem - really liked the way I used to do component composition in React, it was hard to go back.

Eventually found a way to do something similar using just the standard Go html/template.

I’ve written about the implementation here:

https://www.sheshbabu.com/posts/react-like-composition-using...

This a great write-up and similar to an approach that I stumbled upon a few years ago. Have you thought about HTMXing this approach to get away from full page renders?

Thanks! I wanted to use standard Go html/template to see just how bad the re-renders are, and then decide to use htmx. After building the project, I don’t mind the re-renders much as the latency is around 50ms and I don’t see any jank. I might introduce htmx in future

Don't leave us hanging! What did you use instead 3 weeks ago?

Wails <https://wails.io>. I wanted to use Go but wasn't as familiar with native UI as with HTML/CSS/JS, I tried out most of the other popular Go UI frameworks too though they didn't feel as comfortable to use as Spot's React-like model.

Wails is still pretty epic as well though.

oh this looks great

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