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Show HN: Gomponents, HTML components in pure Go

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67 points markusw | 1 comments | 15 Oct 24 11:56 UTC | HN request time: 0.201s | source

Hey everyone! I just released v1.0.0 of gomponents last week. It's an HTML component builder in pure Go, with a DSL-like HTML syntax. It's been 4 years in the making, and makes it really easy to build HTML in your web apps.
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flashgordon ◴[17 Oct 24 23:44 UTC] No.41874971[source]▶
So I like the idea of it but am feeling a bit wary about UI elements as runtime types. Good thing about this is the strong typing but then you have a fair bit of lispifying going on which I swing back and forth on. I actually like templ's approach on this (though hate the extra build step). So I finally just settled on plain old go templates. Not quite eloquent but just feels staple and simple. Clearly a lot of get off my lawn type of biases here :)
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OccamsMirror ◴[18 Oct 24 01:03 UTC] No.41875439[source]▶
I agree with you, but I like Gomponents over html templates due to the type safety. It's also easier to reason about with. Some of my html templates can get quite difficult to maintain, with often the context not being obvious.
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flashgordon ◴[18 Oct 24 01:17 UTC] No.41875515[source]▶
Totally. I am also in this journey where I keep going back and forth between templates and something typed. I really need something like native jsx inside go. Gosx anybody?
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1. markusw ◴[18 Oct 24 05:00 UTC] No.41876483[source]▶
Isn't that basically Templ [0] then? But Templ has that extra build step for preprocessing and converting back to plain Go files.

For me, gomponents is the middle ground. You don't get everything, but quite a lot of JSX-like feel. I was inspired by JSX after all. :) [1] Although I called it GOX back then… :D

[0]: https://templ.guide [1]: https://www.maragu.dk/blog/gomponents-declarative-view-compo...