htmgo - build simple and scalable systems with golang + htmx
Hey all, I just wanted to share a project I've been working on for the past month. After years of heavy frameworks, I really like the idea of using htmx, but it’s a little too low level for me and needs a thin layer above it to facilitate things like components, better syntax with complex JS inside of an attribute, etc To try and solve this problem with a very minimal stack (golang + htmx) that I've been really enjoying, I'm building this project to cater to my needs and was thinking it would be useful for other developers.
htmgo - build simple and scalable systems with golang + htmx launched on September 28, 2024 with 166 votes, #370 of 5,281 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 2 years on.
In plain words
htmgo is a Go framework that adds a lightweight abstraction layer on top of htmx for building web applications. It provides component-based syntax and simplifies JavaScript handling in htmx attributes, bridging the gap between htmx's low-level approach and traditional heavy frameworks. Designed for developers seeking a minimal stack alternative, htmgo combines Go backend simplicity with htmx's interactivity to streamline building scalable systems without framework complexity.
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build simple and scalable systems with go + htmx
htmgo is a lightweight pure go way to build interactive websites / web applications using go & htmx. By combining the speed & simplicity of go + hypermedia attributes ( htmx ) to add interactivity to websites, all conveniently wrapped in pure go, you can build simple, fast, interactive websites without touching javascript. All compiled to a single deployable binary . For a more detailed overview of when you should use hypermedia to build web applications, see when-to-use-hypermedia fromfrom htmgo.dev
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