Usage with Pocketbaae

[gedw99]

This project looks really interesting.

I can’t help but think how well bud and pocketbaae could be a great marriage.

https://pocketbase.io/

Pocketbase gives you :
One line go import
A SQLite db that is extendable at runtime.types are also extendable at runtime.
A api
A admin gui
All the Accounts stuff ( login, logout and Apple , google or email based accounts integration.
A SSE based way to send a data change event to the frontend.
Use any frontend framework. Js, flutter.
A golang api for admin

Bud has sone extra suger 👍 too:
Live reload
Templating

[matthewmueller]

Thanks for sharing your thoughts @gedw99! Pocketbase indeed looks awesome. I can see a couple ideas for integration:

1. If it's possible to mount Pocketbase as a handler, it will soon be possible in Bud to create custom routes that link out to custom handlers
2. Another thing in the works is supporting running custom commands as either standalone processes or running within the app process as a separate goroutine. You'll be able to create a custom "Routine" that can call Pocketbase's app.Start().

Longer-term, I hope to convince the Pocketbase team to give Bud a shot. Their tech is very similar to what Bud is optimized for (combining Go with a UI framework like Svelte).

[gedw99]

I don’t know how receptive the Pocketbase dev will be to integration. He keeps a tight leash on scope creep. And anyway you don’t really need his blessing. Just hook in to it. Plenty examples of others doing it on Awesome Pocketbase.

About point 1. Yeah you can do that I think and seen examples of it out there.

point 2 looks really cool.

Does bud have a preferred gui technology ? I am using go-app a fair bit. It’s golang wasm / service worker based. Large initial download but refreshingly easy to build complex GUi in golang. https://github.com/maxence-charriere/go-app

[matthewmueller]

If by GUI you mean native app, not really. Serving a Bud app in a renderer from an Electron app would totally work today though.

I've also been talking with the creator of https://github.com/wailsapp/wails to see ways we could work together, but nothing concrete yet.

[gedw99]

yep wails wil work..

https://github.com/gioui-plugins/gio-plugins/tree/main/webviewer for web, desktop and mobiles