--- title: "How I use HTMX with Go– Alex Edwards" url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-i-use-htmx-with-go-alex-edwards-yu7zybtpn source_url: https://www.alexedwards.net/blog/how-i-use-htmx-with-go type: article source: "Alex Edwards" published: 2026-07-14T12:02:15.379Z updated: 2026-07-14T12:16:55.035Z tags: ["webdev", "golang", "htmx"] reading_time: 21 upvotes: 10 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # 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. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [A deep dive into HTMX](https://daily.dev/posts/a-deep-dive-into-htmx-uuhadafnq) · Flavio Copes · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Please Just Fucking Try HTMX](https://daily.dev/posts/please-just-fucking-try-htmx-ncu8zbk1v) · Lobsters · 21 upvotes · 3 comments - [HTMX Is So Cool I Rolled My Own\!](https://daily.dev/posts/htmx-is-so-cool-i-rolled-my-own--ocvhcvgx1) · Lobsters · 28 upvotes · 4 comments --- Tags: [#webdev](https://daily.dev/tags/webdev), [#golang](https://daily.dev/tags/golang), [#htmx](https://daily.dev/tags/htmx) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/how-i-use-htmx-with-go-alex-edwards-yu7zybtpn)