Show HN: WebLoop – PhantomJS for Go – Render static HTML of dynamic apps

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https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/sourcegraph/webloop/readme

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WebLoop is built on go-webkit2 (https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/sourcegraph/go-webkit2/re...) (recent HN post at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6644996) and exposes a more Go-idiomatic API for WebKit. The goal is for WebLoop to be a Go version of PhantomJS that can be used as a Go library or compiled to a smaller static binary with no external deps.

It includes an net/http.Handler StaticRenderer (https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/sourcegraph/webloop/symbo...) that you can use to transparently render static HTML from a dynamic app, for search engines, social previews, etc. There's an example application of this using an AngularJS app.

There's also an included static-reverse-proxy program (https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/sourcegraph/webloop/tree/...) that reverse proxies a dynamic app, returning statically rendered HTML. See the README (https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/sourcegraph/webloop/readm...) for usage info.

I'd love to get feedback on this library and get other folks involved!