Fiber + HTMX: Interactive Apps Without the Build Step
For a lot of applications - admin panels, dashboards, internal tools, CRUD frontends - the default stack of a JavaScript SPA talking to a JSON API is more machinery than the problem needs. Two codebases, a bundler, a node toolchain in CI, and client-side state that mirrors what the server already knows.
HTMX takes the opposite approach: the server renders HTML, and a small script extends HTML with attributes like hx-get and hx-target so any element can fetch a fragment and swap it into the page. No build step, no client-side router, no JSON serialization layer.
Fiber is a natural fit for this. Its template engines render fragments fast, the whole application compiles to one binary, and the request handling you already know - routing, binding, middleware - is all there is to learn. Let's build a live-search contact list to see the full loop.
