Go and Javascript go together like Peanut Butter and Jelly. Thanks to the lovely work done in the otto and goja project, it is now viable to embed javascript in a go application.
Embedding javacsript in a go application is a reasonable way to implement plugin systems, scripting layers and even web frameworks!
- cmd/trivial is your starting point for evaluating a javascript expression inside a go program
- cmd/simple is a read eval print loop which may be useful as a starting point for creating interactive command line applications that support javascript.
- cmd/simplewww show's how we might integrate a javascript plugin layer inside a web response.
- cmd/routewww is an example of adding a routing layer, and using this to load special
.jhpfiles.