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title: "Pure Go HTML view components"
publication: "Go Weekly"
issue: 527
published_at: "2024-10-15"
canonical_url: "https://golangweekly.com/issues/527"
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Plus a new tool to generate Go projects, making your network worse deliberately, and Russ Cox on passing on the Go torch. |
#527 — October 15, 2024
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[Gomponents 1.0: HTML View Components in Pure Go](https://www.gomponents.com/) — We first linked to this over three years ago, and it’s not only going strong, it’s hit v1.0. Now a stable, dependency-free HTML component library for your Go projects (there’s also [an example app](https://github.com/maragudk/gomponents/tree/main/internal/examples/app) to look through).
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**IN BRIEF:**
- David Mytton shares [some lessons from running WebAssembly in production](https://blog.arcjet.com/lessons-from-running-webassembly-in-production-with-go-wazero/) with Go and the [Wazero runtime.](https://github.com/tetratelabs/wazero)
- `x = ?`: I think we need a Go version of this [Haskell-oriented dictionary of single letter variable names!](http://jackkelly.name/blog/archives/2024/10/12/a_dictionary_of_single-letter_variable_names/)
- [equ](https://pkg.go.dev/modernc.org/equ) is a simple, Go-powered mathematical equation editor built on top of the recent released [Tk 9.0 bindings for Go.](https://pkg.go.dev/modernc.org/tk9.0)
📺 [How to Work with the GitHub API from Go](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dnyu0JkKSQc) – A 22-minute screencast largely focused on getting authenticated. package main
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Melkey
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[Toxiproxy 2.10: A TCP Proxy to Simulate 'Chaotic' Network Conditions](https://github.com/Shopify/toxiproxy) — A long standing Shopify project designed to stress your system’s reliability and failure handling when it comes to underlying network issues. Toxiproxy can add latency, limit bandwidth, or close connections after a certain amount of data is transferred.
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[GoToSocial 0.17.0: A Go-Powered ActivityPub Server](https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial) — [ActivityPub](https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/#Overview) is the standard behind open federated social networks such as [Mastodon](https://mastodon.social/). This _isn’t_ Mastodon but does offer some compatibility with its API so you can use Mastodon client apps with it.
Super Serious Business
[Greenmask: Postgres Data Masking and Obfuscation Tool](https://docs.greenmask.io/latest/) — A Go-powered utility for dumping a Postgres database and anonymizing the data in a deterministic way. [GitHub repo.](https://github.com/GreenmaskIO/greenmask)
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- 🕒 [Carbon 2.4](https://github.com/golang-module/carbon/releases/tag/v2.4.0) – Friendly time manipulation library.
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- 🤖 [Go OpenAI 1.32](https://github.com/sashabaranov/go-openai) – An OpenAI API wrapper library.
- [Buf 1.45](https://github.com/bufbuild/buf) – Tool for working with Protocol Buffers.
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