Bud
The Full-Stack Web Framework for Go. Bud writes the boring code for you, helping you launch your website faster.
Video Demo
Watch a video demonstrating how to build a minimal HN clone in 15 minutes with Bud.
Documentation
Read the documentation to learn how to get started with Bud.
Installing Bud
Bud ships as a single binary that runs on Linux and Mac. You can follow along for Windows support in this issue.
The easiest way to get started is by copying and pasting the command below in your terminal:
curl -sf https://raw.githubusercontent.com/livebud/bud/main/install.sh | sh
This script will download the right binary for your operating system and move the binary to the right location in your $PATH
.
Confirm that you've installed Bud by typing bud
in your terminal.
bud -h
You should see the following:
Usage:
bud [flags] [command]
Flags:
-C, --chdir Change the working directory
Commands:
build build the production server
create create a new project
run run the development server
tool extra tools
version Show package versions
Requirements
The following software is required to use Bud.
-
Node v14+
This is a temporary requirement that we plan to remove in v0.3
-
Go v1.17+
Bud relies heavily on
io/fs
and will take advantage of generics in the future, so while Go v1.16 will work, we suggest running Go v1.18+ if you can.
Your First Project
With bud installed, you can now scaffold a new project:
$ bud create hello
$ cd hello
The create command will scaffold everything you need to get started with bud.
$ ls
go.mod node_modules/ package-lock.json package.json
... which is not very much by the way! Unlike most other fullstack frameworks, Bud starts out very minimal. As you add dependencies, Bud will generate all the boring code to glue your app together. Let's see this in action.
Start the development server with bud run
:
$ bud run
| Listening on http://127.0.0.1:3000
Click on the link to open the browser. You'll be greeted with bud's welcome page.
Congrats! You're running your first web server with Bud. The welcome server is your jumping off point to learn more about the framework.
Next Steps
Check out the Hacker News demo, read the documentation, schedule a quick call or go on your own adventure. The only limit is your imagination.
Recent discussions: Reddit, Hacker News, Twitter
Real-World Projects
- Bass Loop: a CI/CD stack for https://bass-lang.org/.
- Welcome Page: Bud's welcome page is written in Bud.
History of Bud
I started working on Bud in April 2019 after seeing how productive developers could be in Laravel. I wanted the same for Go, so I decided to try creating Laravel for the Go ecosystem. However, my first version after 6 months needed to scaffold many files just to get started. If you are coming from Rails or Laravel, you may shrug and consider this as pretty normal.
Unfortunately, I have been spoiled by the renaissance in frontend frameworks like Next.js that start barebones but every file you add incrementally enhances your web application. This keeps the initial complexity under control.
With this additional inspiration, I worked on the next iteration for the ensuing 18 months.
The goals are now:
-
Generate files only as you need them. Keep these generated files away from your application code and give developers the choice to keep them out of source control. You shouldn't need to care about the generated code. You may be surprised to learn that Go also generates code to turn your Go code into an executable, but it works so well you don't need to think about it. Bud should feel like this.
-
Feel like using a modern JS framework. This means it should work with multiple modern frontend frameworks like Svelte and React, support live reload, and have server-side rendering for better performance and SEO.
-
The framework should be extensible from Day 1. Bud is too ambitious for one person. We're going to need an ambitious community behind this framework. Extensibility should be primarily driven by adding code, rather than by adding configuration.
-
Bud should provide high-level, type-safe APIs for developers while generating performant, low-level Go code under the covers.
-
Bud should compile to a single binary that contains your entire web app and can be copied to a server that doesn't even have Go installed.
Contributing
Please refer to the Contributing Guide to learn how to develop Bud locally.
Error with NPM When Running make install During Contribution Set-Up
I've been extremely impressed by and interested in but (great work @matthewmueller!!) and I wanted to begin contributing to an interesting bug that I saw in the issues. So I cloned bud and was following the instructions in Contributing.md, but I ran into an error when running make install.
OS: Windows 10 Go Version: 1.18.2 Node.js Version: 16.14.0
Error: invalid cross-device link
When I did 'bud create ff-bud', I got this error:
| rename /tmp/bud-create-3425471412 ff-bud: invalid cross-device link
Possibly because /tmp is different partition than the current directory. Rename will work only in same partition?Add Windows Support
Windows support is currently blocked by:
Bud's compiler will also transition to using Go plugins, which also do not have Windows support yet:
I haven't tested it yet, but you should be able to use Bud with the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).
If you get this working, please let us know how!
Can + 1 operate when the port is occupied
| listen tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: bind: address already in use
For example, running on 127.0.0.1:3001 | listen tcp 127.0.0.1:3001: bind: address already in use 127.0.0.1:3002
Issue/149
This addresses #149.
Appends the suffix "action" to all actions and the suffix "controller" to all nested controllers.
I'm sure there's downsides to this approach, so I'm interested in your thoughts. I was able to verify that this solves the problem listed in the issue, both at the root and at other nested levels.
Tests fail, as assertions expect certain names to exist. I can look at that if you agree with this suffix approach.
bud create app fail
run create bud_app
| create: Unable to infer a module name. Try again using the module name.
For example, bud create --module=github.com/my/app bud_app
Unused import error in generated controller
I'm attempting to implement persistence. So I create a new folder
models
. Write a struct. Update the controllers to use that new struct instead of the autogenerated one. Then runbud run
. But bud errors out withI don't think that bud needs to do any code generation with this package. Is there a way to tell bud to ignore it?
Too many return values error on loadController()
Hi, Firstly this project looks great. Really looking forward to working with it.
Getting the error...
bud/.app/controller/controller.go:133:15: too many return values have (nil, error)
Looks the loadController() is missing a return error definination
func loadController() *controller.Controller { controllerController, err := controller.Load() if err != nil { return nil, err } return controllerController }
run error
Hello, After I bud build the project, I remove the *.go and go.mod source files. run ./bud/app in the terminal, but it output the error: unable to find go.mod: file does not exist in "/Users/Works/news"
---- for exmaple input the command in the terminal news % ./bud/app unable to find go.mod: file does not exist in "/Users/Works/news"
Why the app is running and it needs to depend go.mod?
../../../go/pkg/mod/github.com/livebud/[email protected]/package/scaffold/template.go:28:8: undefined: any
Can't create routes named `index`, `show`
Reproduce
bud create project
bud new controller anything:/ index show
bud new controller index
orbud new controller show
(with or without views)bud run
will give an error:feature idea: detect git short version hash during build and embed into binary
This PR addresses the first proposed solution to this issue. The second proposed solution is not implemented in this PR, but can be added with further information provided.
feature suggestion: `bud run` should launch browser (maybe with a flag to enable?)
When launching the dev server, I have to manually open a browser tab and load the URL. It would be cool if it called out to the OS and simply told it to open the dev server URL. The quick and dirty (on macOS) is to shell out to
open $URL
but I imagine there's a go module somewhere that does this.Even a flag to do it would be fine, as I invoke
bud run
from a Makefile (make dev
).c.f.: https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/automatically-start-browser-on-localhost-4000-after-jekyll-serve/4916/5
feature idea: detect git short version hash during build and embed into binary
In my apps I usually do something like:
Then at build time (in my Makefile) I do this:
This embeds the version string into the app so that I can access it, which is useful for me because then in production I can access this value and put it in my footers and error messages so that I know precisely which commit is running.
It would be cool if
bud build
could detect if it's building out of a git repo, and embed the git shorthash into the built binary in this way. It seems that you could skip theldflags
part and simply "hardcode" the git shorthash into the main.go via the main.gotext template at build filesystem generation time.Anyway, just an idea, and I'm happy to take a crack at making a patch for this when I have some time, I just wanted to write it down while it's in my head.
generated app directory fails linting with golangci-lint
As part of CI I run a linting of my repository. I suggest adding the line
//nolint
at the top of the template forbud/internal/app/main.go
, as well as any other bud-managed template boilerplate files. This way any linters people use will ignore these files (without having to do special configuration to exclude thebud
directory like is already automagically done in the.gitignore
.)using 'change.me' placeholder in go.mod causes network connections to hostname 'change.me'
When using example/placeholder strings that are interpreted as domain names, the domain
example.com
should be used.https://github.com/livebud/bud/blob/d9c7ff63a929c9c308921ae35a929f19c5b101c9/internal/cli/create/create.go#L116