Started using Go for my latest project (a successor to Evernote). It feels like such a relief, especially having just come out of a node.js project. It's everything I wanted in a (web-app) programming language, and for the first time I can say that a language has actually made my code better. I've never had a codebase this clean before.

I understand the basics of Go, but do you have any advice on where to start using it for web app development? Any framework that you're using (if one at all)?

I've found the standard library to be more than capable for most CRUD style apps. You can add in simple middleware chaining using a library such as Alice (https://github.com/justinas/alice) and for passing around request contexts between them, you can use something like xhandler (https://github.com/rs/xhandler). If you want more performant or flexible routing, httprouter (https://github.com/julienschmidt/httprouter) has a nice feature set.

Maybe it's personal preference, but there's something more satisfying about the modular approach of building up an app using only components I need and understand, rather than starting with a magical feature-laden framework but quickly realizing you don't need half of what it does. I think Go aligns particularly well with this philosophy given its emphasis on composition.