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racer
Go go racer!!!
gotta go fast
What
Type safe web frontends built in Go. Its like frontend rails but faster.
Are you crazy
Yes. Crazy of fighting the churn on the frontend. And guess what, there big push now is SSR (Serve Side Rendering) with islands of reactivity. Like every meta framework released. Guess what's REALLY good and server side web dev... GOPHERS!
Now imagine if you could teach a gopher to ride a cafe racer custom built for his cute little frame, sanic move over; we have a new kid on the block.
Cool speech bro, what are you really proposing
Add diagram here of SPA vs SSR vs LiveView
We stand on the shoulders of work done before and consolidate into a Realtime smart framework that out of the box has
- Completely Go based programming model. You can still use JS/TS, but never have to.
- Type safe DOM. It's our contention you'll be FASTER than you would be in React/Vue/Svelte/Solid. Not just at runtime, but in development
- Faster paints, our overhead is currents 7Kb. That's really small, look at the graph below. First paint faster
- Smart real world defaults.
- Auto-reloading
- Auto reconnect with exponential backoff
- Bundler
- Its a framework without the headache, want to replace a part, no problem. Its interfaces at the higher level. The normal fears about code size do apply here, its all server side
ADD Graphs of size and first paint
How do I get started?
We are deep in the conversion to a full stack framework so check back or dig into the code and start asking questions on the #gopher slack
Got docs/notes about the design process
Yes! We are using Dendron for our note taking. It's markdown on steroids and even if you don't use VSCode for programming its a powerful for tracking ideas across a team.
Modules*
| Name | Language | Purpose | Why name? |
|---|---|---|---|
| engine | Go | handles the diffing, rendering and websockets | Is the engine, duh |
| gas | ProtocolBuffers | Text & Binary protocol define in a language agnostic IDL makes supporting big sites easier | its the the conduit which we take the power generated by to engine and make speed. |
| goggles | Go | a DSL to make writing frontend easier than any frontend process, yes including React,Vue,Solid,Angular... fight me | its both how the gopher views the world so its a fun play on words. |
| headlamp | TS | The shim on the frontend that is all the scripting you need. It handles socket connections, applying the diffs and track events | On a race bike headlamps are so small to almost be ornamental. |
*more to come as the framework progresses, stuff like routers, bundlers, etc
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