A collection of reusable Go packages for web development. The goal is to remain simple and idiomatic, while adhering to the standard library's APIs when possible.

Installation

go get github.com/nickhstr/goweb

Note: Go modules are the only supported dependency tool.

Features

General middleware
Configurable logger - built on github.com/rs/zerolog
Router - routing with github.com/gorilla/mux
Server - dns lookup caching and automatic port resolution
Data access layer - request client with caching
Cache - a key-value cache, using Redis
Newrelic - handler wrapper and custom logging, using github.com/newrelic/go-agent
Environment variable helpers
Mongodb helpers

Contributors

Setup

Install dependencies:

make or make install

Workflow

Run make help to view the available common tasks, such as linting, testing, etc.