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🚀 GV (Go Vite)

GV is a blazing-fast, browser-native development server and build tool written in Go. It’s inspired by Vite but designed to run without Node.js, using the power of native ESM in modern browsers and CDN-based dependency resolution.

⚡ Powered by Go. 🔌 Plugin-friendly. 🧠 Node-free.

💎 Philosophy

We should be able to use JavaScript frameworks, without 'node' or any runtime, just your browser.

✨ Features

• Native ESM support in modern browsers
• CDN-based module fetching (e.g., esm.sh, skypack)
• Local caching of remote modules
• Hot Module Replacement (HMR)
• Zero-config dev server
• esbuild-based transpilation
• babel-based transpilation
• Plugin system (inspired by Vite/Rollup)
• Written in Go with extensibility in mind
• No Node.js required — ever
• TypeScript support
• Adapter to support any http server

Installation

For Linux, MacOS and Windows

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/struckchure/gv/main/scripts/install.sh | bash

For Windows

irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/struckchure/gv/main/scripts/install.ps1 | iex

🔧 Getting Started

git clone https://github.com/struckchure/gv
cd gv/examples/react
go run .

Then open your browser to http://localhost:3000.

📦 How It Works

• 📜 Transpiling: Uses babel internally for .ts, .jsx, .tsx, etc.
• 🌐 CDN Resolution: Bare imports (like react) are rewritten to point to https://esm.sh/react and cached locally.
• 🔥 HMR: WebSocket server pushes updates to the browser with minimal reloads.
• 🧩 Plugins: Extend GV with hooks like transform, resolveId, and load.

📁 Project Structure

Well, your project structure can be anyhow you want, but here's a sample react project

.
├── index.html
├── main.go
├── main.jsx
├── router.js
└── routes
    ├── layout.jsx
    ├── login
    │   └── page.jsx
    ├── page.jsx
    └── register
        └── page.jsx

Import from CDNs or local files directly:

import { createRoot } from "https://esm.sh/react-dom@19.1.0/client";
import { RouterProvider } from "https://esm.sh/react-router@7.5.0";
import React from "https://esm.sh/react@19.1.0";

import { router } from "./router.js";

createRoot(document.getElementById("root")).render(
  <RouterProvider router={router} />
);

🔌 Plugin API

Check here.

📜 License

MIT © 2025 Mohammed Al-Ameen