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# Via
# Via
Real-time engine for building reactive web applications in pure Go.
## Why Via?
Somewhere along the way, the web became tangled in layers of JavaScript, build chains, and frameworks stacked on frameworks.
Via takes a radical stance:
The web became tangled in layers of JavaScript, build chains, and frameworks stacked on frameworks. Via takes a different path.
- No templates.
- No JavaScript.
- No transpilation.
- No hydration.
- No front-end fatigue.
- Single SSE stream.
- Full reactivity.
- Built-in Brotli compression.
- Pure Go.
**Philosophy**
- No templates. No JavaScript. No transpilation. No hydration.
- Views are pure Go functions. HTML is composed with a type-safe DSL.
- A single SSE stream carries all reactivity — no WebSocket juggling, no polling.
**Batteries included**
- Automatic CSRF protection on every action call
- Token-bucket rate limiting (global defaults + per-action overrides)
- Cookie-based sessions backed by SQLite
- Pub/sub messaging with an embedded NATS backend
- Structured logging via zerolog
- Graceful shutdown with context draining
- Brotli compression out of the box
## Example
```go
package main
import (
"github.com/go-via/via"
"github.com/go-via/via/h"
"github.com/ryanhamamura/via"
"github.com/ryanhamamura/via/h"
)
type Counter struct{ Count int }
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```
## What's built in
## 🚧 Experimental
<s>Via is still a newborn.</s> Via is taking its first steps!
- Version `0.1.0` released.
- Expect a little less chaos.
- **Reactive views + signals** — bind state to the DOM; changes push over SSE automatically
- **Components** — self-contained subcontexts with their own data, actions, and signals
- **Sessions** — cookie-based, backed by SQLite via `scs`
- **Pub/sub** — embedded NATS server with JetStream; generic `Publish[T]` / `Subscribe[T]` helpers
- **CSRF protection** — automatic token generation and validation on every action
- **Rate limiting** — token-bucket algorithm, configurable globally and per-action
- **Event handling** — `OnClick`, `OnChange`, `OnSubmit`, `OnInput`, `OnFocus`, `OnBlur`, `OnMouseEnter`, `OnMouseLeave`, `OnScroll`, `OnDblClick`, `OnKeyDown`, and `OnKeyDownMap` for multi-key bindings
- **Timed routines** — `OnInterval` with start/stop/update controls, tied to context lifecycle
- **Redirects** — `Redirect`, `ReplaceURL`, and format-string variants
- **Plugin system** — `func(v *V)` hooks for integrating CSS/JS libraries
- **Structured logging** — zerolog with configurable levels; console output in dev, JSON in production
- **Graceful shutdown** — listens for SIGINT/SIGTERM, drains contexts, closes pub/sub
- **Context lifecycle** — background reaper cleans up disconnected contexts; configurable TTL
- **HTML DSL** — the `h` package provides type-safe Go-native HTML composition
## Examples
The `internal/examples/` directory contains 14 runnable examples:
`chatroom` · `counter` · `countercomp` · `greeter` · `keyboard` · `livereload` · `nats-chatroom` · `pathparams` · `picocss` · `plugins` · `pubsub-crud` · `realtimechart` · `session` · `shakespeare`
## Experimental
Via is maturing — sessions, CSRF, rate limiting, pub/sub, and graceful shutdown are in place — but the API is still evolving. Expect breaking changes before `v1`.
## Contributing
- Via is intentionally minimal and opinionated — and so is contributing.
- If you love Go, simplicity, and meaningful abstractions — Come along for the ride!
- Fork, branch, build, tinker with things, submit a pull request.
- Fork, branch, build, tinker, submit a pull request.
- Keep every line purposeful.
- Share feedback: open an issue or start a discussion.
## Credits
Via builds upon the work of these amazing projects:
Via builds upon the work of these projects:
- 🚀 [Datastar](https://data-star.dev) - The hypermedia powerhouse at the core of Via. It powers browser reactivity through Signals and enables real-time HTML/Signal patches over an always-on SSE event stream.
- 🧩 [Gomponents](https://maragu.dev/gomponents) - The awesome project that gifts Via with Go-native HTML composition superpowers through the `via/h` package.
> Thank you for building something that doesnt just function — it inspires. 🫶
- [Datastar](https://data-star.dev) — the hypermedia framework powering browser reactivity through signals and real-time HTML patches over SSE.
- [Gomponents](https://maragu.dev/gomponents) Go-native HTML composition that powers the `via/h` package.