⚡Via

Real-time engine for building reactive web applications in pure Go.

Why Via?

Somewhere along the way, the web became tangled in layers of JavaScript, build chains, and frameworks stacked on frameworks.

Via takes a radical stance:

• No templates.
• No JavaScript.
• No transpilation.
• No hydration.
• No front-end fatigue.
• Single SSE stream.
• Full reactivity.
• Built-in Brotli compression.
• Pure Go.

Example

package main

import (
 "github.com/go-via/via"
 "github.com/go-via/via/h"
)

type Counter struct{ Count int }

func main() {
 v := via.New()

 v.Page("/", func(c *via.Context) {
  data := Counter{Count: 0}
  step := c.Signal(1)

  increment := c.Action(func() {
   data.Count += step.Int()
   c.Sync()
  })

  c.View(func() h.H {
   return h.Div(
    h.P(h.Textf("Count: %d", data.Count)),
    h.Label(
     h.Text("Update Step: "),
     h.Input(h.Type("number"), step.Bind()),
    ),
    h.Button(h.Text("Increment"), increment.OnClick()),
   )
  })
 })

 v.Start()
}

🚧 Experimental

~~Via is still a newborn.~~ Via is taking its first steps!

• Version 0.1.0 released.
• Expect a little less chaos.

Contributing

• Via is intentionally minimal and opinionated — and so is contributing.
• If you love Go, simplicity, and meaningful abstractions — Come along for the ride!
• Fork, branch, build, tinker with things, submit a pull request.
• Keep every line purposeful.
• Share feedback: open an issue or start a discussion.

Credits

Via builds upon the work of these amazing projects:

• 🚀 Datastar - The hypermedia powerhouse at the core of Via. It powers browser reactivity through Signals and enables real-time HTML/Signal patches over an always-on SSE event stream.
• 🧩 Gomponents - The awesome project that gifts Via with Go-native HTML composition superpowers through the via/h package.

Thank you for building something that doesn’t just function — it inspires. 🫶