pkg

This repository holds commonly used packages that provide various self-contained utilities and business logic helpers.

Here is a brief summary of a selection of packages:

pkg/log

Provides a ready-to-use logger that reports to Sentry by default, wraps "github.com/upfluence/log" behind the scenes.

pkg/timeutil & pkg/timeutil/timetest

Wraps commonly used time functions so that they can be easily mocked later.

pkg/group

Facilitates a common concurrency pattern by spawning a groups of goroutines working on a same task. Handles error cancellation and propagation.

pkg/cfg

Fetches custom values from environment variables, or default values if they don't exist.

pkg/currency

Abstracts the money type and provides an interface, a default implementation (based on the EU central bank API) and helpers to exchange amounts of money to various currencies

pkg/slices

Provides common operations on slices missing from "slices".

pkg/pointers

Can return a pointer to a value. And other pointer stuff.