Go microservice starter

It's a lean boilerplate to start developing a microservice in Go.

Features

• Gin server
• Godotenv to load environment variables
• Makefile for the development and production tasks
• Air live reload configuration
• Docker configuration
• Docker-compose configuration

The project layout follows the Standard Go Project Layout.
I adopted the godotenv to load environment variables, following this convention.

Development

In the Makefile there are the commands to develop and build:

• make dev: run the app with live reload (Air)
• make: format, lint, examine and build
• make start: start the server in production mode

Docker

Build

docker build -t go_app -f .\build\package\Dockerfile .

Run

docker run -p 8080:8080 go_app:latest

Docker compose up

docker-compose -f .\docker-compose.yml up -d --build

Docker compose down

docker-compose -f .\docker-compose.yml down

Installation

To easily install the latest version of GNU Make for Windows, you may execute scoop install make (Scoop) or choco install make (Chocolatey).
To install globally Air for the live reload, execute go install github.com/cosmtrek/air@latest.