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Re: How I use HTMX with Go

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Post by nzoschke » Tue, Jul 14, 2026, 10:47 PM UTC

nzoschke wrote: post #4

Love Go + HTMX. I pair it with a-h/templ for a bit more type safety on the template, components and partials. I just shared my whole toolkit too [1], I call it the "GUS stack" -- Go, Unix, SQLite. Inspired heavily by the exe.dev "GUTS" stack [2] but with HTMX instead of Typescript. Some other Go components in the kit... - cockroachdb/errors for errors with stack traces - templ for type-safe HTML templates (with htmx…

Could rebrand to the HUGS stack -- HTMX (or hypertext), Unix, Go, SQLite

Re: How I use HTMX with Go

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Post by sethops1 » Tue, Jul 14, 2026, 10:54 PM UTC

We use this[1] little package, which enables chaining together HTMX responses that can be based on an HTML template file, an HTML raw string, or plain text. All but the first being OOB targets. Real example:

  return htmx.Write(w,

    &htmx.Template{
      FS:       htmx.FS(ui.HTMX, "parts"),
      Filename: "arrows.html",
      Fields:   []any{thread, up},
    },

    &htmx.Component{
      HTML: `
        {{$count}} points`,
      Fields: []any{count, thread},
    },

  )

[1] https://github.com/cattlecloud/webtools/tree/main/htmx

Re: How I use HTMX with Go

#13

Post by smallerfish » Tue, Jul 14, 2026, 11:11 PM UTC

I wrote a framework for my own use that uses Kotlin + HTMX - https://github.com/reubenfirmin/zoned. The goal was to see if I could create webapps that were fully typed, end to end. It uses Kotlinx.html, which provides a jsx-ish dsl for writing html.

I did the first 90% by hand, and have done the last 10% (and README) with Claude, just to get it out there.

Re: How I use HTMX with Go

#14

Post by _superposition_ » Tue, Jul 14, 2026, 11:11 PM UTC

defrost wrote: post #9

_superposition_ wrote: post #7

Nice post. Gotta love the GOTH stack

There's no other tool for extracting wasps from stings in flight.

And they claim naming things is hard...

Re: How I use HTMX with Go

#15

Post by artooro » Tue, Jul 14, 2026, 11:27 PM UTC

Go + Datastar is simpler, I much prefer it.

Re: How I use HTMX with Go

#16

Post by shimman » Tue, Jul 14, 2026, 11:31 PM UTC

nzoschke wrote: post #4

Love Go + HTMX. I pair it with a-h/templ for a bit more type safety on the template, components and partials. I just shared my whole toolkit too [1], I call it the "GUS stack" -- Go, Unix, SQLite. Inspired heavily by the exe.dev "GUTS" stack [2] but with HTMX instead of Typescript. Some other Go components in the kit... - cockroachdb/errors for errors with stack traces - templ for type-safe HTML templates (with htmx…

I tried to use templ but it felt more frustrating than ergonomic. Like at that point I'd rather just use react (and I hate react). Just sticking with basic std templates + HTMX sprinkling is good enough for my needs.

Re: How I use HTMX with Go

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Post by overflowy » Tue, Jul 14, 2026, 11:45 PM UTC

While I love both Go and Alex, my experience with HTMX has always ended up being disappointing.

I think the best way to put it, when I'm working with HTMX it feels like the complexity of the codebase is growing at a 2:1 rate compared to the app itself. I always end up with some weird edge case that I can not come out of without some weird hack.

I get why people dislike Node packages, HTMX feels like it's an overcompensating response to that. But the time you save by not having to wrestle with JSON is tripled when you try to make the app actually look or feel good. It takes me 2 minutes to slap together a Mantine template [1] and tap into some of the best UI components, then I can embed the built static assets and end up with the same single Go binary.

[1] https://github.com/mantinedev/vite-min-template

Re: How I use HTMX with Go

#18

Post by yawaramin » Tue, Jul 14, 2026, 11:53 PM UTC

overflowy wrote: post #17

While I love both Go and Alex, my experience with HTMX has always ended up being disappointing. I think the best way to put it, when I'm working with HTMX it feels like the complexity of the codebase is growing at a 2:1 rate compared to the app itself. I always end up with some weird edge case that I can not come out of without some weird hack. I get why people dislike Node packages, HTMX feels like it's an overcompe…

What's an example of a UI that you built with Mantine that you couldn't with htmx?

Re: How I use HTMX with Go

#19

Post by didip » Wed, Jul 15, 2026, 12:14 AM UTC

nzoschke wrote: post #11

nzoschke wrote: post #4

Love Go + HTMX. I pair it with a-h/templ for a bit more type safety on the template, components and partials. I just shared my whole toolkit too [1], I call it the "GUS stack" -- Go, Unix, SQLite. Inspired heavily by the exe.dev "GUTS" stack [2] but with HTMX instead of Typescript. Some other Go components in the kit... - cockroachdb/errors for errors with stack traces - templ for type-safe HTML templates (with htmx…

Could rebrand to the HUGS stack -- HTMX (or hypertext), Unix, Go, SQLite

I love HUGS a lot too. Currently building a next gen platform using strictly HUGS.

Re: How I use HTMX with Go

#20

Post by lazypenguin » Wed, Jul 15, 2026, 12:29 AM UTC

artooro wrote: post #15

Go + Datastar is simpler, I much prefer it.

I also prefer Datastar but the new features coming in HTMX4 closes the gap more. Happy to see the ecosystem converging on good patterns.