gin

I would love to see Go have first class support for watch/hot reload while developing Its not first class, but I have been happy using reflex [1] for non-http and gin [2] for http. Combined with Go's fast compile they work as well as a hot reload. [1] https://github.com/cespare/reflex [2] https://github.com/codegangsta/gin

https://github.com/apex/up is a godsend for deploying on AWS Lambda for me. By the same author as Express JS, TJ Holowaychuk. TJ abstracts the Lambda nonsense so you just get to use a standard HTTP res/resp interface. https://github.com/apex/up-examples/ Deployment iterations for me in Singapore can be as low as 2s, but tbh I use https://github.com/codegangsta/gin locally for development iterations.

Just use Gin: https://github.com/codegangsta/gin

For the live-reloads there are a few options. We use gin (https://github.com/codegangsta/gin) in some projects and it works nicely but for projects with a lot of files/folders it doesn't work that well. Another option we have tried is CompilerDaemon (https://github.com/githubnemo/CompileDaemon) and it also works quite nicely but has the same problem when you have a lot of files/folders. So, I agree with you that this is something that should be improved to make our development easier.

Relating to redeploying code, did you give https://github.com/codegangsta/gin a look? Also, any particular reason to not use a web framework such as gin-gonic for routing and templating? It simplifies some things down for me.

Looks neat. Very I think it was a smart choice to pick an existing HTTP router. Like was mentioned above, the name was unfortunately used beforehand. https://github.com/codegangsta/gin

Real-time code reloading from the author of Martini: Gin - https://github.com/codegangsta/gin. Quite an unfortunate choice of name.