websocket

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A Websocket Test with the following goals

• Learn about Using Web Sockets in golang
• Learn about Using the htmx technology as a replacement for building responsive web applications
• Learn about using the templ library to build templates (think java server pages for go)

Dependencies

Templ must be in your path. See

https://github.com/a-h/templ

For building and adding to your path.

Getting Started

After CDing into the directory.

1. generate the templ templates with

   $ templ generate

2. Install go modules

   $ go install

3. Startup

   $ go run main.go

Endpoints

The application starts up on port :8080 and can be accessed from

http://localhost:8080

• '/' The default experience. Uses Htmx and hyperscript to build a simple chat bot that echos your inputted text

• '/chat', Similar to '/', but uses pure javascript functionality.

• '/hello', an endpoint to test templ templates