How I build and deploy my Go applications (Templ & HTMX)

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[SeibertSwirl]

My notifications are delayed lol how am I getting a notification like two minutes later lol YouTube is against me. good job babe! Love your haircut 😘

[CCHS]

A much cheaper alternative is to deploy directly to a VPS or VDS on providers like Hetzner or Linode, things like railway, vercel, fly, and so on can really fuck you over with fees if you make a mistake. You can do it with docker, but I prefer to setup a reverse proxy and get all my apps running with systemd services. It's really old school but I know I will only ever pay the cost of my VPS and if I want to scale, scaling vertically is effortless :p

[AMDevanney]

I removed the dependency on node by using the standalone tailwind command line tool. You could do the same in the container.

[tjblackman]

A 25MB image is crazy good... You taught me about the "scratch" image, thanks!

[ohLyln]

Great video Cody! I have been subbed to you for a while since back in my node / react days but I like you have migrated most of my stuff to Go +Templ w/ HTMX! In fact I migrated all my old node heroku projects to Railway a few years ago too!

On a side note, I would love to see a video about your dev mode with air and all the cli tools you need to run to "hot reload" (tailwind, templ generate etc). I did have it set up at one point but it always seems like a PITA to set up for every project. Would love to see how you implement such a system!

[ifeanyinneji]

Thinking of rewriting most of my django rest framework projects in Go. Just that there isn't any framework like Django for Go

[CCHS]

I think using node to compile your css is fine. It's not like you have it running all the time.

[eillioniscreating]

I hope you to make tutorial or playlist about building project with go in the future.

[farzadmf]

Small tip: instead of prepending every statement in the Makefile, you can to `make -s ...` to make it "silent" (not echo the commands it runs)

[coffeeintocode]

You could use the Tailwind binary & add DaisyUI from CDN to remove npm entirely…..but it’s not fully tree shaken so the files are bigger than they need to be

[cdotdev]

I normally have a node layer that pulls from a node docker image like node:22 and a separate golang layer that builds go

[unisol]

Hey, You can reduce the size of executable binaries with UPX. The compression ratio is around 60% with UPX alone. UPX + Compiler options(-ldflags=“-s -w”) even more.

[dejanduh]

you are using fiber I see. Would be a good comparison between fiber and the std library to monitor the memory ussage

[_vicary]

You may add one more build stage "FROM node" to save some apt install time.

[Torboc]

I saw you were using sqlite in a previous video. How do you deploy the db to railway?

[MrHamsterbacke]

I don't think one could call this kind of stack simple as templ is a custom language and needs a build step. Similar to JSX but less integrated.

[leo]

Do you use sqlite on railway and if so, do you mind explaining how?

[fmentz]

could do a video on an actual production ready auth in go? Would love to see that

[abhinavadarsh]

One thing I want to point out that code generation should not be part of build. You should commit generated go files.

[picklenickil]

If you needed tailwind in htmx, without adding node to your containers, maybe use tailwind via cdn...

Am i right or am i missing something here?


Your styles are simple enough so why not.. and you dont look like someone who would have unused classes in his code