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Building desktop apps with Go + web tech

Go Time: Golang, Software Engineering

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Chrome DevTools

In Chrome, the DevTools are just incredible. And that's what people want to use. So I created a compile flag which essentially creates a headless mode and sets up an actual web server in a single code. What you can do then is if you run, it tells you what commands are run,. You run the command, and the front end gets served up by its native tools. In view, I think it uses Webpack serve or one of these kind of runners. The front end actually has some code that's injected into it, which connects to your backing code. Now you're running in the browser, but you're still connected to a backup. That becomes incredibly powerful because

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