Hopefully you got the right tools for Go cause the boilerplate levels are just insane for web dev & APIs.
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Go standard libraries include pretty much everything you need now. Right out the box. Let me fix up my little boilerplate example of a web server with an API with zero external dependencies and I'll share it with you.
I mean take a look at gobuffalo.io, frameworks like that provides a lot of value for a specific use case.
I know “you can do it all yourself”, but time preference…
Yea, I'm not a fan of frameworks. There a while bunch now. I'd rather build most things I can from scratch. Frameworks always work 90% how I want them to and the last 10% is way to convoluted to try to make the way I want. Easier to build it myself.
The biggest hurdle for me will be learning htmx. Go is fucking awesome.