desktop

Go/HTML/CSS/JS Desktop application scaffold.

How it works

Build your application using Go APIs, and an HTML/CSS/JavaScript front-end inside the www folder, just like a normal web root.

Building the package will generate a .app mac application file that will host a simple web server serving the assets and any other endpoints you build.

When run, the application will open a web view into the www folder (and therefore the index.html page).

Usage

Build with: make build, run with: make run

See the Makefile for more commands

Dependencies

https://github.com/machinebox/appify - macOS Application Builder
https://github.com/zserge/webview - Web view
https://github.com/gobuffalo/packr - Asset packaging (puts JS/CSS/HTML files into the Go binary)

Install

Use make install to run:

& go get github.com/machinebox/appify
$ go get github.com/jteeuwen/go-bindata/...
$ go get github.com/elazarl/go-bindata-assetfs/...

Run

Run with make run.

To see log output open Console Application and search for My Go Desktop App (or whatever your app ends up being called).

Preview of the default application

Contribute?

We think this project could be much bigger. Got ideas? Get in touch.

What next?

If you want to build other kinds of Go application, and have them built into macOS applications, check out our machinebox/appify project.

machinebox / desktop

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