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by Art9681 1140 days ago
I'm building a platform using GoFiber + AlpineJS and it's wonderful. I have to go through the Fir project because I'm trying to figure out what problem it solves. Wouldn't it be just as easy as using the vanilla net library + Alpine or one of the more established Go frameworks + Alpine? Honest question. If Fir has a value proposition that's unique im still in a position to pivot.
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The (claimed) value proposition is leveraging block/template to decompose the html page and bind its computation to browser events over a pubsub channel. Its a toolkit and not a framework so one can still use their favourite framework. The Go library isn’t doing anything earth shattering but re-implementing the aforesaid design would still need to be done in any framework.