052: Gost, a Go headless browser with Peter Strøiman

02/25/25 • 55 min

This week I'm joined by Peter Strøiman, the author of Gost, a Go headless browser that can be pretty useful when doing TDD and even (especially) if you're using HTMX. We talk about the challenges and the "why" Peter wanted to build this project, where it can be helpful and we dive into the internals a bit.

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Transcript

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Hello there. I'm Dominic Sibial, and you're listening to Go podcast. Today, I'm joined by Peter Straumann, and he is the creator of Ghost, a headless browser. Before we dive in into the interview, I'd like to remember everyone that we are on the Gopher's channel called Go Podcasts, so in one word. So, again, I mean, I I won't shut up with it until there is, you know, way more people than that in there. I know that, we have a lot of listeners, so ma