The purpose of this repo is to demonstrate the potential benefits of HTML streaming.

It's implemented in Go simply because Go has a straightforward, batteries included approach when it comes to HTTP servers, and a powerful HTML templating library that makes it extremely easy to modularise streamable parts of the page.

There are two pages: /stream and /nostream. /nostream functions in the way that most web pages are implemented by default: the page is only rendered once all content has been received.

A small loading element is streamed just before waiting for fetched content to arrive, and an inline CSS style is streamed to hide that loading element again after the content is ready to be streamed.

You'll need a working version of Go installed:

go run .