Build offline-first web apps in pure Go and HTML

What it does

Build offline-first web apps in pure Go and HTML. Your net/http handlers and html/template run inside a Service Worker as WebAssembly — no backend hop after first load — or natively as an SSR server.

Write plain net/http handlers and html/template templates. Swag compiles them to WebAssembly and runs them inside a Service Worker — so after the first visit there is no backend network hop at all. 1 go install go.mills.io/swag/cmd/swag@latest 2 swag new myapp 3 cd myapp && go mod tidy 4 swag dev # build + serve + watch + live reload on :8000 Visit http://localhost:8000/ , install the PWA, kill the server , and keep using the app. Your Go handlers and templates execute in a Service Worker as WASM. Once installed, the app runs with the server gone — reads, writes, navigation, rendering, all local. No JavaScript app to write, no JSON API to design, no client/server type drift. UI is…from swag.mills.io

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