Project Forge

Project Forge is a powerful application generator and project manager for building modern web applications in Go. It helps developers rapidly create, customize, and scale applications through an architecture that puts you in complete control. Choose from dozens of optional modules — from database integrations and OAuth providers to advanced features like GraphQL APIs, WebSocket support, and desktop app builds.

Every Project Forge application includes a blazingly fast HTTP server built on quicktemplate for type-safe HTML rendering. The optional Model-View-Controller framework provides enterprise-grade features out of the box: content negotiation, hierarchical navigation, breadcrumbs, OAuth integration with 40+ providers, stateless sessions, comprehensive theming with dark mode, SVG icon management, syntax highlighting, rich form components, and optimized asset embedding.

The included UI framework delivers exceptional performance without sacrificing developer experience or user accessibility. This very page demonstrates the power: fully animated, themed, and responsive design delivered in just three HTTP requests (HTML, CSS, JS) totaling under 20KB compressed. Sub-millisecond server response times and sub-20ms browser rendering create an incredibly snappy user experience. Progressive enhancement via an integrated ESBuild TypeScript pipeline ensures full functionality even with JavaScript disabled.

Deploy anywhere, run everywhere. Project Forge applications can target virtually every platform: native desktop apps via system webviews, mobile applications for iOS and Android, WebAssembly modules, and notarized universal macOS binaries. Enable all build targets and generate nearly 60 platform-specific builds, each producing a compact ~20MB self-contained binary. Built-in auto-update capabilities work seamlessly with GitHub Releases, while comprehensive CI/CD workflows handle building, testing, linting, and publishing to multiple distribution channels.

Example Applications

Rituals.dev (GitHub): Work with your team to estimate work, track your progress, and gather feedback.
- It's a full websocket-driven rich client application, but also works fine without JavaScript
TODO Forge (GitHub): Manages collections of todo items.
- Almost entirely generated using Project Forge, this is a "stock" application. Provides desktop, mobile, and WASM apps
Load Toad (GitHub): A tool for uploading HTTP Archives (.har files) and running load tests.
- Also supports client-defined JavaScript, executed in-process on the server
Admini (GitHub): A database management application, basically. It does other stuff too.
- This one is weird, it tried to build a user-defined admin app, but it just ended up looking like a 1990's web portal
NPN (GitHub): Basically Postman, it helps you explore and test HTTP services with a focus on speed and correctness.
- This uses a Vue.js-based rich client application, and a websocket to handle communication
Solitaire (GitHub): An example game, not really anything right now.
- It mainly exists as a testbed for me, and to show the features of Project Forge projects

More examples coming soon...

Standard Project Forge Workflow

Getting Started

Install Project Forge - Download from projectforge.dev, use Homebrew, or build from source
Create Your Project - Run projectforge to launch the web interface and generate a new application
Choose Modules - Select from 40+ optional modules like databases, OAuth, GraphQL, desktop builds, and more
Generate & Customize - Project Forge creates a complete Go application with your chosen features

Development Workflow

Live Development - Run ./bin/dev.sh for instant live-reload during development
Add Features - Use the web interface to add new modules, modify existing ones, or update your configuration
Customize Code - Add or edit controllers in app/controller/, add services in app/services.go
Build & Deploy - Generate production builds for multiple platforms with included CI/CD workflows

What You Get

Modern Go Architecture - Latest Go version with clean, maintainable code structure and comprehensive standard library
Lightning-Fast UI - Beautiful, accessible HTML interface that works perfectly without JavaScript
Developer Experience - Sub-second build times, instant live-reload, and intuitive project management
Multi-Platform Builds - Native applications for mobile, desktop, web, and specialized architectures
Self-Contained Deployment - Single ~20MB binary includes web server, CLI tools, and all dependencies
Enterprise Authentication - OAuth integration with 40+ providers, stateless sessions, and comprehensive theming
Database Flexibility - Type-safe APIs for PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, or go database-free
Modern Frontend - ESBuild-powered TypeScript, progressive enhancement, embedded SVGs, and responsive CSS
Production Ready - Built-in CI/CD, auto-updates, monitoring, logging, and deployment automation

Licensing

Project Forge is MIT licensed, and the modules are CC0.

Your project is your own, use any license you'd like.