Go lang and web site development
As of now I am offering a new web development stack and process than before. In the past I have worked with Wordpress and later AWS Serverless with React.
Those options were ok, and I liked the Wordpress days, I just want another way to write customer web software. React is just too complicated for anything that I do. Maybe like Facebook needs it because they have so many users but my clients are small-mid companies that are using tech to drive their business.
Enter, Go. Recently I've started using Go as a backend server and instead of using React, just HTML frontend with limited javascript (like the old days!). Go is a great backend language. It is statically typed and compiled. It is a lot like C, which I used to work with, and it has some nice support for network and general web stuff like templates, a built in web server and more.
So, similar to Wordpress, custom Go backend is very easy to setup and relies mainly on simple HTML, CSS and javascript. I will probably lean toward using htmx.
With that I can offer practically any web-based functionality imaginable. Some examples are: a simple website, a site with employee login to share information or documents, a form to capture information such as sign ups into a database and so much more!
Author: Marcus
Post Date: 2023-11-25
By Marcus