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# How I use HTMX with Go– Alex Edwards

**[Alex Edwards](https://daily.dev/sources/alexedwards)** · 21 min read · 10 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

A practical guide to integrating HTMX with Go web applications, covering HTML template structuring (base, pages, partials), embedding assets with Go's embed package, rendering full-page vs partial HTML responses, detecting HTMX requests via the HX-Request header, handling redirects with HX-Redirect vs HX-Location, configuring error response handling, managing back-button behavior with history cache settings, and recommended HTMX configuration options like disabling attribute inheritance and local storage caching.

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## Questions this post answers

### How do I redirect to a new page after a form submission when using HTMX with Go?

Send a 2xx response with an HX-Redirect header set to the target URL instead of a normal 3xx response, because browsers intercept 3xx responses before HTMX can see them. The HX-Redirect header tells HTMX to make the browser navigate to that URL with a full-page reload, and the HX-Request header will not be present on that follow-up request. Fall back to a regular 3xx response when the request isn't coming from HTMX.

_Developers wiring up HTMX redirects in Go handlers can find worked patterns like this one on daily.dev._

### How can I tell in a Go handler whether a request came from HTMX so I can return a partial instead of a full page?

Check for the HX-Request: true header on the incoming request, which HTMX always includes on requests it makes. A helper function like isHTMXRequest() can inspect this header, letting a handler branch between returning an HTML partial for HTMX swaps and a full HTML page for direct browser visits or shared links. Also set a Vary: HX-Request header on responses to avoid caching issues.

_Building HTMX-aware Go handlers gets easier with concrete request-detection patterns shared on daily.dev._

### Why does the HTMX back button show a partial HTML fragment instead of the full page after a cache miss?

By default HTMX caches up to 10 pages in local storage, but on a cache miss it resends the request including an HX-Request: true header, causing servers that conditionally return partials to send back only a fragment. Setting historyRestoreAsHxRequest to false in the HTMX config stops that header from being sent on history-restore requests, so the server returns the full page instead.

_Anyone debugging HTMX back-button quirks in a Go app can compare configuration fixes on daily.dev._

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