Learning Buffalo by Building a Small Helpdesk App in Go

When people talk about Go web development, the conversation often jumps straight to minimal stacks: net/http , a router, a query builder, a templating choice, and then a lot of glue code. That approach is great when you want total control. But sometimes, you want a more complete web framework experience — something that gives you a structured project layout, routing, templates, models, migrations, forms, and a development workflow that feels closer to Laravel or Rails. That is exactly why I wanted to explore Buffalo . To make it concrete, I built a small example project called HelpDesk Lite , a simple support app with users, tickets, and comments: GitHub repo: https://github.com/VincentCapek/helpdesk_lite In this article, I want to show how Buffalo works in practice through this project, what the developer experience feels like, and what I learned along the way. Why Buffalo ? Buffalo is interesting because it is not just "a router plus a few helpers". It gives you a full web applicatio