I didn't like any of the current GO/HTMX starter out there, so I decided to build my own. I hadn't found any templates out there that had proper hot reloading, which IMO is very important for UI work. So, my goal was to create the simplest base I could start working with.

This is a Go Fiber boilerplate, that combines Vite/Air to handle Hot Reloading, improving the dev experience. It uses Tailwindcss@v4 (with the Prettier plugin to sort classes); Vite to handle bundling of JS dependencies; and Bun to handle the installation of new dependencies.

This project uses Bun to handle client side stuff. Pay them a visit to install it first! You'll probably need to install Air too, and also Templ . And you know, Go stuff...

Run these the first time to install deps:

go mod download
bun install # for the first time building it

And the following commands to start your web page at ** http://localhost:3000 ** (Do not confuse with the vite's localhost:5173 that is used for bundling and tooling)

bun dev

Dockerfile and docker-compose are included, just run docker compose up --build to run locally

Besides using gofmt for most of the formatting, this also uses prettier to handle Tailwind classes sorting. So make sure your editor is ready to add prettier to .templ extensions, i.e. for conform.nvim:

formatters_by_ft = {
  templ = { 'gofmt', 'prettier' },
},

I'm personally using this in a small but active production application, and I couldn't be happier. I've been updating the starter as I made changes to the current active project. Its not a finished starter by any means, but I'm aiming to keep using and updating it.