Vinelab / go-base

Basic GO project structure with configuration using environment variables and convenient http client

Go base

A basic project structure with configuration using environment variables and a convenient http client package to reduce boilerplate.

Features

• Define configuration variables in config/config.go
• Use the HTTP client with simple calls to http.GET and http.POST

Installation

• Clone this repository in a location from your GOPATH
• Replace all occurrences of Vinelab/go-base with the name your vendor/project

Vendoring Dependencies

Using Docker image vinelab/go-vndr:

1. Run docker run -it -v /path/to/project:/go/src/github.com/[vendor]/[project] vinelab/go-vndr bash to run a container with the code mounted and a new SSH session established

   1. Changes in code on the local file system will be directly available in the container (mounted)
   2. Shutting down the container will not cause any harm to the code, except the vendor packages installed using vndr will need to be re-installed after running another container (see step n.2)

2. Run (within the container) vndr