Another variation on the theme of combining backend and frontend in a single application. There have already been examples of Spring Boot with ReactJS, Go with HTMX and Electron with ReactJS. This time, the alternative to Electron is Wails v3, which combines Go and ReactJS to create native desktop applications.
Previously, I created examples using Spring Boot with ReactJS and Go with HTML, but those were client-server applications. Sometimes you need to create a simple desktop application that needs to be used locally. One option is to use Electron.
Continuation of Spring Boot web service with embedded ReactJS application, but now with Go and HTMX. Over the course of a long time, I have accumulated various diagrams, diagrams, and graphs in the form of a bunch of images scattered in folders. It’s not very convenient to search through them, so I decided to quickly make an image cataloger with content recognition.
Recently, I needed to create a web application using Spring + ReactJS. Usually, this involves two separate containers: a web server serving static files (NGINX, NodeJS, or something else) and a BFF (or the API backend itself). However, in simple cases, everything can be combined into a single service to avoid overcomplicating deployment.
Or rather, this is the story of how to build a Self-contained system using mainstream frameworks.