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It is increasingly common backend languages have a compiler for javaScript, enabling us to use the same code in the backend and in the browser.
Clojure, Scala and kotlin already support to compile your code for JavaScript, in Go it’s completely possible too.
In this post we will see how to do it.
1) We need to download the GopherJS to our GOPATH
go get -u github.com/gopherjs/gopherjs
2) We need to write our Go code that we want to compile for JavaScript
package main
import (
"github.com/gopherjs/gopherjs/js"
"fmt"
)
func main() {
js.Global.Get("document").Call("write", "Say hello to GopherJS")
fmt.Println("GopherJS")
}
In the first line of main function, we get the documentJavaScript object and call your method write passing the string Say hello to GopherJS as argument. In the second line we are doing the same as console.log("GopherJS")
3) We need compile our Go code for JavaScript
gopherjs build -o app.js
We compile and minify the .js file passing -m as argument
gopherjs build -m -o app.js
4) We need to include the JavaScript file in our HTML file
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Intro GopherJS</title>
</head>
<body>
<script src="js/app.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
Now we finish it. We can startup our server and see it run on browser.
This post project is on my github see you in next post