Developing AGE Viewer desktop application in Go Language.

[Nimra-1234]

Can we guys discuss here about details. Like how we start this and what will be used for backend.

[saadjameel]

Yes there are many front-end and back-end frameworks of Golang
For front-end we can use : Gin, Echo
For backend we can use : Wails, Guark

[Nimra-1234]

For Environment setup , I have installed ,

1. Go Language
2. VS Code with (GO extension)
3. And also run "Hello world" simple code over there.

[AhmarZaidi]

I had started with GO basics sometime back. Now I'm continuing with that.
Will look into the frontend libraries after that.

[saadjameel]

Yes better to understand the core knowledge first then we'll move to the desktop framework part.

[Nimra-1234]

I'm using this series, which I found very interesting and informative.
Link : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoJ8Sw5Yb4c&list=PLRAV69dS1uWQGDQoBYMZWKjzuhCaOnBpa&index=1
Hope you guys will also love that.

[sarthak-19]

For the front-end part, as mentioned in the AGE project list, there are two choices,

1. Wails
2. Guark
   I think we should go with wails as Guark is relatively new and since both are in development stage, Wails is growing at much faster pace.
   What's everyone's take on this?

[AhmarZaidi]

@sarthak-19 I second that. Wails has much better and refined documentation. Should be easier to learn and adapt.

[sarthak-19]

So in the process of learning to create a desktop application, I came across two frameworks for GUI as Go don't have in-built GUI libraries :

1. Wails
2. Fyne
   I was initially fixated on using Wails but now got confused as to what will be a better choice.

Fyne is

• a cross platform GUI inspired by Material Design
• more popular and stable
• has better community support
• has last release 6 months before
• use Vue templates
• no need to know React, Angular or VueJS framework, we can create GUI applications for Windows Mac Linux in Go itself.

While Wails last release was 2 years ago

• is growing
• gives us flexibility in developing UI
• allow us to use good old HTML, JS, and CSS.
• can use any front-end technology we are familiar with like React

Here's website for reference :

• https://go.libhunt.com/compare-fyne-vs-wails
• https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/yuwxs0/comment/iwc5dvv/

Please take a look into this, so we can finalize the framework and have a discussion on it.