Go Blog

Description:

Features

• Create Blog Posts: Users can create blog posts with a title, content, and an expiration date.
• View Blog Posts: View individual blog posts with detailed information, including creation and expiration dates.
• Automatic Expiration: Blog posts can be set to automatically expire at a specified date.
• Connection Pooling: Efficient database connection pooling using Go’s database/sql package.
• Template Rendering: Dynamic HTML rendering with Go templates for serving content to the frontend.

Technologies Used

• Go: Language used for building the backend application.
• MySQL: Database for storing blog posts.
• HTML Templates: For dynamically rendering blog post data to the web pages.
• Postman: Recommended tool for testing API endpoints.

Project Structure

• main.go: Entry point of the application, handles server initialization and routing.
• models: Contains the BlogModel struct, which defines database interactions for blog posts.
• templates: Holds HTML template files for rendering views.
• handlers.go: Defines HTTP handler functions for different routes.
• templates.go: Template management and caching logic.