#What it is
An SSR-first UI framework for Go, built on templ with templui components, Tailwind and shadcn-inspired design. You write the whole frontend in Go with compile-time type safety.
#What it includes
- 35-plus production components, server-rendered with no required client-side dependency.
- Alpine.js integration covering directives, stores, magic helpers and plugins, plus HTMX attribute helpers and server-side utilities.
- Client-side routing through Pinecone Router for SPA-style navigation.
- About 1,600 Lucide icons with customisation.
- A Go-to-JavaScript RPC bridge for calling Go functions from the client.
- An asset pipeline with esbuild, Tailwind processing and file fingerprinting.
- A hot-reload dev server, a scaffolding CLI, a theme system over CSS variables, and a plugin architecture with dependency management.
#Where it earns its place
Bastion's admin dashboard is written in ForgeUI. That is the case it is for: an internal or operational interface attached to a Go service, where standing up a separate frontend build, a separate deploy and a separate set of API contracts costs more than the interface is worth.