Go Rest Api Boilerplate

If you are new to the Go language you should first check out the docs and get familiar with the language. Next, you should clone this repo outside your go path (we use go modules for package management). Once you are done this, you can run ./setup.sh to configure the boilerplate to your project. Don't forget to to initialize a new git repo once you have run the command.

This boilerplate aims to give a basic rest api structure in go based on the go-swagger server generation command, and the Gorm ORM for PostgreSql. It also uses Go-Migrate to handle database migrations.

When To Use Go

• Need for greater speed in data processing (but not for database access and network requests)
• High usage of concurrency
• NOT when there is a package that does what you need (ecosystem is far less developed than Node)
• When you want to write statically typed code that will be cleaner and are willing to put in a bit more time and effort

Getting Started

Clone the repo outside of your $GOBASE and then run the command ./setup, it will guide you thru the process of setting up your project. You should then modify the swagger.yml file to match the needed api spec. Note that this file can be modified as much as possible and the command to re-generate the generated code can be re-run as needed. It will only overwrite code in the ./gen directory so you are safe to write whatever you need in the internal directory.

Once you have set up your project, you should commit the changes.

##Commands

Install

go get -u github.com/adeptmind/adept-go-postgres-api-boilerplate

Build

Builds a local binary

go build -o main

Run

To run the server from the build:

./main

To run the server in development mode:

go run main.go

Generate code from the swagger file

Used to generate the stub and helper code from swagger.yml into ./gen:

mkdir -p ./gen && swagger generate server -A boilerplate -f ./swagger.yml --exclude-main -t ./gen

Database Migrations

We use go-migrate for db migrations.

Install migrate tool (call from outside the project):

go get -tags 'postgres' -u github.com/golang-migrate/migrate/cmd/migrate

or brew install go-migrate

Add a migration:

migrate create -ext .sql -dir db/migrations/ MIGRATION_NAME

Run a migration (note that if using ssl, the ssl_disabled option should be removed):

migrate --path db/migrations/ --database "postgres://postgres@localhost:5432/boilerplate?sslmode=disable" up
migrate --path db/migrations/ --database "postgres://postgres@localhost:5432/boilerplate?sslmode=disable" down

Testing

Go has a builtin test tool that can run tests and performance benchmarks with or without coverage (more details in docs):

go test ./...

Formatting

Go has a builtin formatter:

go fmt ./...