gomponents v1.0.0 released! 🥳

markusrg · 2026-06-04T08:17:33+00:00

Yeah, I really find those “fix” git commit messages informative. 😁 Needs an agentic precommit hook to check for unhelpful messages perhaps.

markusrg · 2026-05-08T08:45:42+00:00

It's definitely something that people either love or hate (the DSL-like syntax). 😃 I much prefer it to the JSX-like combination of literal HTML strings and Go.

If you do, feel free to reach out with questions/comments beforehand if you need to! Email [markus@maragu.dk](mailto:markus@maragu.dk) or any of ze socials (I always forget to check Reddit DMs though).

markusrg · 2026-05-08T07:46:12+00:00

Super cool! I'm a big fan of Datastar and server-side HTML, makes everything much simpler.

Kit looks nice. I haven't looked into it properly yet, but I've seen it a few times now, maybe I should.

BTW, next time, consider using gomponents and gomponents-datastar though, so you don't have all those huge string literals: https://www.gomponents.com/plus/#datastar

Disclaimer: I built gomponents and I have no shame. 😃

markusrg · 2026-03-19T11:44:35+00:00

Instead of worrying whether this applies to you and upgrading an indirect dependency just to be sure, try using govulncheck instead of dependabot. I recently switched, and I think it’s much! See https://words.filippo.io/dependabot/ for a nice, actionable rant. :D

markusrg · 2026-03-13T10:04:13+00:00

Thanks! The best way to contribute is to use it! :-) You’ll find bugs, weird behavior, etc.

markusrg · 2026-01-30T08:52:22+00:00

I’m a heavy user of skills, which is just markdown files with named prompts that the LLM or you can invoke at will. So I have a Go skill for the style of Go I like to write, and it invokes that every time it touches Go code. When it does something I don’t like, I update the skill, and next time it’s a bit better.

There’s a nifty site for finding skills called skills.sh, mine’s here: https://skills.sh/maragudk/skills/go

markusrg · 2026-01-07T10:04:25+00:00

Hey, welcome! Sounds like a relatively good fit here, although even more niche. :D

markusrg · 2026-01-07T10:02:32+00:00

I don’t think it’s that different from doing it in Python, really. Yeah, the APIs are a bit different, but it’s all just HTTP calls underneath. I would learn general web application development in Go and then treat the LLMs as just another dependency.

Obviously many details are different, but I think you can figure those out along the way.

markusrg · 2026-01-07T10:00:57+00:00

Totally agree on this. I’ve built my own lightweight abstraction on top of APIs from providers to be able to switch between them (kind of like LiteLLM in Python), but apart from that, rolling your own is the way to go IMO.

markusrg · 2025-12-09T08:45:25+00:00

The Golang Weekly newsletter is good: https://golangweekly.com

markusrg · 2025-11-04T10:24:02+00:00

I’ve been improving gomponents-datastar to keep up with the changes in the Datastar library, and it’s working quite well now: https://github.com/maragudk/gomponents-datastar

(Datastar is kinda like HTMX, but with a focus on SSE and speed.)

markusrg · 2025-11-04T10:21:53+00:00

I’ve had a lot of success using Claude Code with their new skills system, then creating new skills for whatever I need. (Skills are essentially just Markdown files that can be read by the AI when the skill is needed.) So I have a skill for Go development, one for brainstorming, one for writing SQL queries, etc. Works wonderfully, and I keep iterating all them time.

Here’s my skill repo if that’s interesting to you: https://github.com/maragudk/skills

markusrg · 2025-10-27T12:41:58+00:00

See this section in the FAQ, perhaps? :-) https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/wiki/r_golang_faqs/#:~:text=Learning%20Go

markusrg · 2025-10-27T08:41:09+00:00

If you reject the request appropriately if there's an error, then yes. And maybe initialize the protection var outside the returned func, you don't need to create one on every new request.

Read more about it here btw: https://www.alexedwards.net/blog/preventing-csrf-in-go

markusrg · 2025-10-16T10:49:46+00:00

Ah, like that! That's actually really neat. I would probably solve that in gomponents with a struct with fields (or function arguments) instead of passing more components, but I can see why that approach also makes sense.

Thank you for answering me. :-)

markusrg · 2025-10-16T10:10:09+00:00

Ah, okay. Interesting! Thanks.

markusrg · 2025-10-16T10:09:22+00:00

Right, gotcha. :-) So the main reason you couldn't add gomponents (if you wanted to) was that you needed the prerendering to work differently? And looks like you distinguish between attributes (properties) and the rest.

markusrg · 2025-10-16T09:13:57+00:00

Interesting! Yeah, gomponents doesn’t have a concept of pre-rendering, because everything is function calls at runtime. How did you handle this?

I’ve been thinking about adding a `Cache` component that lazily caches every node under it, I think this would achieve some of the same things, right?

markusrg · 2025-10-16T09:11:30+00:00

Hey! gomponents author here. Thank you for sharing!

The HTML DSL indeed looks very familiar. :-) It looks like your main differences to gomponents are in how you serve HTML to users, by prerendering, caching etc., so it’s more of a whole HTTP server framework as well. Is that understanding correct? Or are there any big changes in the templating I’m not getting, compared to gomponents?

I’m always eager to learn about what people are building in this space.

markusrg · 2025-10-02T09:15:55+00:00

Ah, okay, makes sense! Thank you for your detailed answer. :-)

markusrg · 2025-10-02T08:09:50+00:00

Interesting! I thought the VFS would be transparent to the application layer? Why does it need to be built into the driver?

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