# gobuffalo

- Page: https://shared.btbytes.com/p/gobuffalo
- Date: 2023-08-15
- Tags: golang, programming, gobuffalo

[Buffalo](https://gobuffalo.io/) is a "full featured" web framework for [golang](https://shared.btbytes.com/p/golang). I wanted something more than simple "API" frameworks, because i'm planning to build a whole website and not just an API. It comes with it's own command line tool called `buffalo` which can be installed via `homebrew`. I installed it via `go get` because I wanted to use sqlite instead of the default postgresql, at least till I actually need the bigger RDMSes.


New project is created via `buffalo new PRJNAME`. Immediately after you can start the local dev server by invoking `buffalo dev`, which would also compile javascript and CSS using webpack.

Buffalo's default scaffolding ships with `jquery`, `bootstrap`, and `SASS`, which are then compiled by webpack. While this stack is probably good enough for many things, I want to use `tailwindcss`, `HTMX`, `hyperscript` and maybe `alpinejs`. Part of learning buffalo would be to figure out how to replace default options with mine.