Vue-inspired library with Go+WebAssembly

[Brad]

Now that WebAssembly is available as an (experimental) compilation target, it raises the question of how feasible is it to make a quality UI library. Vue (my personal fav) and React, while they have their issues, do have many ideas which are good and seem like they may translate well over to WebAssembly.

Here's a working experimental Vue-like UI library with tools to write UI components in .vugu files (similar in concept to .vue files): https://github.com/vugu/vugu; Getting Started page: http://www.vugu.org/doc/start

HTML with logic in it gets code generated to .go files.  In-browser rendering in wasm  with DOM sync as well as static HTML output are implemented.

And this is my cheesy bullet-pointed list that makes it sound a lot more mature than it is:

* Runs in-browser using WebAssembly

* Single-file components

* Vue-like markup syntax

* Write idiomatic Go code

* Rapid prototyping

* ~3 minute setup

* Standard Go build tools

I'm curious what people think of the approach and ideas for improvement.

--brad

[Rusco]

Congrats, I am sure a lot of gophers waited for something like this !

I especially like this comment:  "No node. No JS. No npm. No node_modules folder competing with your music library for disk space" 

😂

[Mike Schinkel]

Oops. I think I spoke to soon. I don't think what you have is an alternative to Lorca, but an alternative to Vue.js (which might still be interesting.)

Whoever is moderating if you see this in time please just delete both messages.

[Mike Schinkel]

Hi Brad,

This sounds very interesting. 

We are currently building a product using Lorca (https://github.com/zserge/lorca) but am worried that it is not mature and may never be, and that Chrome could change and disable to features that make it possible at any time.

What are your plans for it?  I would be really interested if it could become a commercial product so that I could have better confidence of it being supported.

-Mike

On Friday, March 29, 2019 at 12:39:42 AM UTC-4, Brad wrote:

[Brad]

Yeah, it's different.  But it would certainly be cool to have a solution that provides an Electron-like shell around a Vugu application.  I'll make an issue for it so it's noted for later.

[Mike Schinkel]

But it would certainly be cool to have a solution that provides an Electron-like shell around a Vugu application.  I'll make an issue for it so it's noted for later.

Yes! Exactly.  Would be very interested in that.

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