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Show HN: Gova – The declarative GUI framework for Go

(github.com)

The code looks nice, but when I read GUI, I want to see screenshots of GUIs.

Apparently a major dependency is "Fyne", which does show some screenshots on their page:

https://fyne.io/

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Came here to say the same. Please add a few screenshots!
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I'll be watching this project.

Looking forward to a Golang declarative framework.

My advice to the author: invest in rich multi-window support early on. It's easy not to, but you always need it in the end, and it's painful to retrofit.

I feel like there's a great cross-platform UI story to be told with Go, since cross compiling is so easy.

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I once built a small utility using the "Fyne" framework; it was reasonably functional and made it very convenient to compile cross-platform executables (including for Android).

I took a look at your recommendation, "gova"; it seems to be just getting started—keep up the good work!

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Very excited every time I see cross-platform GUI in go.

I think the right mental model is that Gova is to Fyne like DaisyUI is to TailwindCSS??

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Looks quite nice, alternatives to Tauri always welcome although that Tauri is truly fantastic, so much to emulate.
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Tauri is basically Electron though. This is a native toolkit, which is another thing entirely.
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That's a beautifully designed library, bravo! Will have to give it a go
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This wraps Fyne? As a long time user of Fyne, what does this provide beyond Fyne itself?
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A "mithril" like syntax. Like you could do (wrapped over multiple lines of course)

m.div([m.h1("title"), m.p(["click", m.a({href:"..."}, "me")])])

you can do (taken from the page)

g.VStack(g.Text(...), g.HStack(...).Spacing(g.SpaceMD))

some people will like this style, others not.

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The repo doesn't say it, but the Author noted on the Gophers Slack #showandtell that the style was inspired by SwiftUI. That VStack example shows it quite well.
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I think styling and ready-made components out of the box?
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