go-preact-starter

Starter for combining Go and Preact in any web project.

How It Works?

• Renders Preact components on serverside using go-duktape
• Unifies client-side and server-side routing on one JSON file.
• Watches Go, JS, CSS files, compiles them automatically and refreshes your browser.
• Uses Browserify, no configuration needed.
• Supports server-side templating for HTML documents that wraps the application. So you can have multiple pages.
• Locates all Go dependencies inside the project for security by giving you a convenient GOPATH setup.
• Provides caching when development mode is disabled.

Install

Clone the repo and install the dependencies:

git clone git@github.com:azer/go-preact-starter.git hello-world
cd hello-world
make install # install dependencies needed
make develop # start developing! visit localhost:9000 to see your website!

Coding Notes

• Create UI components under frontend/components
• Define your routes on routes.json, point them to a valid component.
• Run make go-get and make frontend-install to install new dependencies.
• Edit .env file to choose different host/port for serving.

What's missing ?

• API polyfill for backend
• Could be nice to see backend errors on the browser.