Boston Code Camp 28 Demo

This repository contains the sample app discussed at my Going, Going, Golang presentation at Boston Code Camp 28.

Setup

Some basic instructions for first time Go users

Install Golang

Grab the approppriate installer at https://golang.org/dl/

Go will assume that you're working in a directory %USERPROFILE% on Windows or $HOME/go on Mac/Linux. If you are working in another directory - say c:\dev\go<projects> - you'll need to set your GOPATH environment variable to that path. See https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/SettingGOPATH for more information.

Install the Glide package manager

Glide is one of a few package managers for Go. You can download builds at https://github.com/Masterminds/glide/releases. On a Mac, use brew install glide on Windows, copy the binary to a directory in your PATH. I suggest copying it to the Go bin directory itself - c:\go\bin by default.

Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/jzablocki/bcc28.git

Install the dependencies

From the root of the project (where you cloned into), run glide install

Run the app

From the root (where main.go is) run go run main.go OR go build and run the bcc28 executable.

Test the App

In Postman (or any other HTTP tool) post the following JSON body to http://localhost:8888

{
	"title": "Learning Golang",
	"isbn": "123456789"
}

You should see the response below.

{
    "data": {
        "title": "Learning Goissssssh",
        "isbn": "123456789"
    }
}

The browse to (or use Postman) to GET http://localhost:8888. You should see an array of items back.

johnzablocki / bcc28