README.md

go-react

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This is a simple Go executable with an embedded React app.

This particular implementation uses:

• embed to embed static assets in the go binary
• webview_go to run HTML, CSS, Js without bundling a browser
• vite to scaffold and bundle the UI

Essentially any JavaScript UI framework/library can be used like Angular, Vue, Svelte, Solid, etc as long as the generated code doesn't depend on Node.js and is runnable on a browser.

Prerequisites

These need to be installed on your system to be able to develop/build the app:

• webview
• go
• node.js

Build

Build the ui first to generate your static assets. Inside the ui folder, run:

npm run build

Then build the binary. Inside the root folder, run

go build

That's it! The size of the binary on linux-amd64 comes to ~7.3MB.