Go can be used for server-rendered web apps as well as APIs. With templ for views and htmx for browser interactions, it is possible to build an admin UI in a mostly Go-first workflow.

In this series, we will build an e-commerce admin dashboard with Fiber , HTMX , Templ UI , and GORM . Part 1 focuses on the UI foundation: starting a small server, generating UI components, building a landing page, and composing a reusable dashboard layout.

The code samples below are intentionally simplified. They are closer to pseudocode than copy-paste production code, so the focus stays on structure instead of project-specific details.

Prerequisites

Fiber v3

HTMX

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templ

Templ UI

TailwindCSS standalone CLI

GORM

Set up the server

To begin, a very small Fiber server is enough. It only needs to serve static assets, render the landing page, and listen on a port.

func main () { app := fiber . New ()

app . Static ( "/assets" , "./assets" ) app . Get ( "/" , RenderTempl ( LandingPage ))

app .…