I was playing around with server-rendering, and couldn't really find a good workflow for restarting the Go server, generate templates and generate CSS on changes without manually reloading it.
It's not quite as instant as hot-module-reloading in JS, but it's better than managing it yourself.
NPM dependencies
We're not really using NPM for anything except developer tooling, but you need it all the same.
npm init
npm install -D browser-sync concurrently nodemon tailwindcss
Go dependencies
If you're using Templ, then run...
go install github.com/a-h/templ/cmd/templ@latest
package.json
Then change the scripts portion of your package.json look like this.
{
"name": "web",
"version": "1.0.0",
"description": "Note: Strictly used for dev tools. Not production",
"main": "index.js",
"private": true,
"scripts": {
"watch:go": "nodemon -e go,sql --exec 'go build . && ./app' --signal SIGTERM",
"watch:css": "tailwindcss -i ./web/global.css -o ./web/public/generated.css --watch",
"watch:templ": "templ generate --watch",
"watch:browser": "browser-sync start --port 3001 --no-ui --proxy 'localhost:3000' --files ./app",
"dev": "concurrently npm:watch:* --kill-others",
"test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
},
"author": "",
"license": "ISC",
"devDependencies": {
"browser-sync": "^2.29.3",
"concurrently": "^8.2.2",
"nodemon": "^3.0.2",
"tailwindcss": "^3.3.6"
}
}
Run it
npm run dev
Honorable mention
I tried using Air, but ended up dropping it for Nodemon. I already needed NPM for Tailwind (plugins), and it works great.