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goaltools / goal

Goal is a toolkit for high productivity web development in Go language in the spirit of Revel Framework that is built around the concept of code generation.
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Define high level goals #9

Closed ghost closed 9 years ago

ghost commented 9 years ago

Let's define the high level goals of the project. What are we trying to achieve? What are the priorities?

Can it be more than a traditional (by traditional I mean HTML template system as V) MVC framework? Probably, like Meteor, Volt, Webalchemy. Should it? Or we can just make sure it works good with Angular, React, and whatever is fashionable now.

The code generation we are relying on is pretty powerful and we can do a lot of cool things. We just need to decide what cool things we want.

And to the question of positioning: is it a framework or toolkit? It is implemented in a form of separate tools. Every one is independent and can be used on its own. But on the other hand all of the tools play nicely with each other and form a single framework. So, how should we call it (need to know as it is used a lot in the comments and docs)? I have started with "toolkit" but recently switched to "framework".

davidhunterxyz commented 9 years ago

I like the idea of it being a toolkit. Originally I thought that is what you were building.

ghost commented 9 years ago

I have discovered go-humble. Looks like they are doing the same thing we are ("a collection of loosely-coupled tools") but for front-end. This is a note to myself to take a closer look to their project and find out whether it is possible to use go-humble and goal together. Or otherwise get inspiration to implement own alternatives to their tools.