Show HN: Gomponents, HTML components in pure Go

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Post by markusw » Tue, Oct 15, 2024, 11:56 AM UTC

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.

Show HN: Gomponents, HTML components in pure Go
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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Oct 15, 2024, 11:58 AM UTC

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Post by floydnoel » Tue, Oct 15, 2024, 8:13 PM UTC

are event handlers possible? neither the Github repo nor the linked page showed an example of a button or form submission.

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Post by dgraph_advocate » Tue, Oct 15, 2024, 10:11 PM UTC

Awesome, now do it in Haskell!

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Post by Woshiwuja » Wed, Oct 16, 2024, 6:20 AM UTC

floydnoel wrote: post #3

are event handlers possible? neither the Github repo nor the linked page showed an example of a button or form submission.

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Post by kccqzy » Thu, Oct 17, 2024, 11:33 PM UTC

dgraph_advocate wrote: post #4

Awesome, now do it in Haskell!

There are at least two generations of libraries doing that in Haskell. There was blaze-html and then lucid afterwards to fix some monad laws.

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Post by flashgordon » Thu, Oct 17, 2024, 11:44 PM UTC

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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Post by burntcaramel » Thu, Oct 17, 2024, 11:58 PM UTC

That’s awesome! I have a very similar project Dovetail, that tries to nudge you into making things accessible.

https://github.com/RoyalIcing/Dovetail

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Post by burgerrito » Fri, Oct 18, 2024, 12:31 AM UTC

floydnoel wrote: post #3

are event handlers possible? neither the Github repo nor the linked page showed an example of a button or form submission.

This is basically a HTML templating library. It's server side only. Or do you mean event handlers in the HTML attributes?

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Post by burgerrito » Fri, Oct 18, 2024, 12:34 AM UTC

Looks cool. There is also Templ[1] that does something similar, though uses codegen.

I wish there is an equivalent of Storybook for these things though, it would be really nice!

[1] https://templ.guide/