Running in a browser about go-app

[joeblew99]

i know that running murlok in a web browser is being worked on over here:
https://github.com/gu-io/gu/tree/feature/apps

It is a bridge, just like @maxence-charriere suggested.

The docs do not directly talk about murlok, but me and the GU developer have specifically discussed this as a use case. The reason this makes sense is because GU allows running a web app where all rendering happens in the backend, which matches what murlok does.
GU also allows compiling using gopherjs so it runs in a browser too.

I have to warn you though thats its early days on this.
i just wanted to let you know.

[maxence-charriere]

I have no idea for gopher.js. Looks not impossible but I can't tell. I would need to try it to see its limits.

Another idea would be to have a driver that implement a bridge using javascript and a web socket.
The flaw with this approach is that a lot of thing is done on the server side (the go part) and this website would be pretty dependent to a good connection to be responsive.

[influx6]

Ya, unfortunately the gopherjs driver am building is very specific to the architecture I built for Gu. But modifying it to fit murlock *App instances should be possible with some mental logic changes by @maxence-charriere.

Gu currently works with gopherjs on the master branch. But the changes in features/apps should change that and allow more other means of rendering the application built other than gopherjs.

@joeblew99 Is building a means to have murlock work with the go bindings for QT, so that might be something to look forward to as well.

[maxence-charriere]

Hey guys, I'm pretty close to achieve this:

I have a problem though,
I need to call a function generated by gopherjs from javascript.
Did not find any documentation about it :(

@influx6 @joeblew99 , I saw you deal with gopherjs in gu, have you any hint about it?

[maxence-charriere]

Omg... I did it!

[maxence-charriere]

This is up.
See hello example and nav example to see how this works.