How to use React in a Go web app

In this video we learn how to add a React frontend to a Go app.

[davidb]

Hey Robby. I'm a junior SE (3 years) that mostly worked on desktop apps. I wanted to create a web app for a personal project and in order to learn a bit more about web dev. There are literally thousands of tutorials but as I looked into them (or their stack) I felt they were over engineered or way above my skillset. I found yours and created the bulk of the app (go + react) super fast. I'm glad since I like Go. I just want to really thank you for these as they are quick, clear, concise and deal with down to earth information. I know you asked in the other video about suggestions: how about testing? Would you set up a single point of entry for all your testing in the go app, or maybe use esbuild script to test independently the go side and then the react side? Thanks!

[DaveFredkove]

That's cool, thanks Robby! 🤓
I love both react and Go. Im trying to establish a pattern for my relatively small web apps. Where I'm at currently is a go docker image as my API in gcp (reusable for multiple ui's/routes) and react (nextjs13) on vercel. However, this offers an interesting alternative that seems to have some benefits... Gonna play with this.

[felipecouto]

Simple and amazing! I've just subscribed!

[RafiDude]

Thank you Robby for the great content! Would you be able to do a video on using Go Fiber with Svelte JS?

[MrDevianceh]

How would one pass data from golang trough esbuild to react so that you effectively have ssr?

[yanfoo]

How do you pass server variables to the client component?

[takeyuout]

On building a shopify theme, the part around 5:50, where you use the configure command, when I try to use the configure command it says command not found

[RedditFam]

super helpful, however your speed sometimes overwhelms me😅

[remingtonsmith]

Thanks for the video!! One question tho... setting "watch: true" doesn't seem to work and throws the error: "invalid option in build() call watch esbuild, " Any help would be appreciated!

[vuenfus]

Thank you for your kind instruction. I pretty much got it! I would like to ask you just one question. I’m sorry but I don't understand how Application.js(public/assets) created at 8:18. I'd be delighted if you could return my comment when you find the time.

[chrishabgood]

I checked out the repos and ran nom run dev and i got, This site can’t be reached localhost refused to connect. and the warming in the console was 'crbug/1173575, non-JS module files deprecated.'