Show HN: Gova – The declarative GUI framework for Go

dgb23

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/

GuardCalf

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!

iamcalledrob

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.

donatj

This wraps Fyne? As a long time user of Fyne, what does this provide beyond Fyne itself?

vegancap

That's a beautifully designed library, bravo! Will have to give it a go

vr46

Looks quite nice, alternatives to Tauri always welcome although that Tauri is truly fantastic, so much to emulate.

rubenvanwyk

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??

kitd

Nice work. The hot-reload dev cli looks very cool in a compiled-binary world.

staplung

Intro code snippet has two buttons ("+" and "-") in an HStack. Expected them to be arranged horizontally but in the accompanying screenshot they're stacked vertically. Is that intentional?

someguyornotidk

How reasonable is it to ask for this to support the WASM target? This would be invaluable for small go projects that can't maintain multiple UIs.

4ndrewl

Probably nice, but only 7 commits and over 2 days? Are you in this for the long run?

jacques_chester

For those wanting to do it for web pages, I've been keeping an eye on https://www.gomponents.com

foresto

Somewhat related (but not declarative): Qt bindings for Go, MIT-licensed. https://github.com/mappu/miqt With the compiler flags I tried, binary size was close to that of Gova: https://github.com/mappu/miqt/issues/147#issuecomment-280033... Qt bindings for Zig, using the same approach as MIQT: https://github.com/rcalixte/libqt6zig