gobuffalo
Notes on Buffalo Go web framework
Created:
Buffalo is a “full featured” web
framework for golang. I
wanted something more than simple “API” frameworks, because i’m planning
to build a whole website and not just an API. It comes with it’s own
command line tool called buffalo which can be installed via
homebrew. I installed it via go get because I
wanted to use sqlite instead of the default postgresql, at least till I
actually need the bigger RDMSes.
New project is created via buffalo new PRJNAME.
Immediately after you can start the local dev server by invoking
buffalo dev, which would also compile javascript and CSS
using webpack.
Buffalo’s default scaffolding ships with jquery,
bootstrap, and SASS, which are then compiled
by webpack. While this stack is probably good enough for many things, I
want to use tailwindcss, HTMX,
hyperscript and maybe alpinejs. Part of
learning buffalo would be to figure out how to replace default options
with mine.