This is a simple Go executable with an embedded React app.
This particular implementation uses:
- embed to embed static assets in the go binary
- webview_go to run HTML, CSS, Js without bundling a browser
- vite to scaffold and bundle the UI
Essentially any JavaScript UI framework/library can be used like Angular, Vue, Svelte, Solid, etc as long as the generated code doesn't depend on Node.js and is runnable on a browser.
These need to be installed on your system to be able to develop/build the app:
Build the ui first to generate your static assets. Inside the ui folder, run:
npm run build
Then build the binary. Inside the root folder, run
go build
That's it! The size of the binary on linux-amd64 comes to ~7.3MB.