This edition
As a backend engineer, I always found myself struggling to build a full-stack web application on my own. I seemed to always get lost, in the JavaScript ecosystem. Or even simple things like how to structure a more complicated application.
So when I learnt about HTMX, I decided to give it a go (no pun intended ;) ). So I tried to build a Web app without needing to write any (or very little JavaScript) and see how far I could get.
In the end, I had a joyful developer experience building an app with Go, HTMX, templ, tailwindcss and Postgres, KISS - keep it simple stupid.
LEVEL: Introductory and Overview
Past editions
Nix the package manager has gained a lot of popularity in the last 18 months or so. I would love to be able to show other Gophers, how they can leverage Nix and its ecosystem to improve their development environments.
Including how we can use it to create more consistent development environments, between different devices and other engineers. So we get the same development environment and tooling as each other. Then how can we use it in CI, Go have essentially the same local development environment and CI development environment. Avoiding the dreaded “it works on my machine” meme.
Go is the perfect language to pair with Nix because of how simple it is to set up with Nix. Due to it having some great tooling already. We will see, we can replace some of our existing tooling to manage developer environments with Nix.
LEVEL: Intermediate
