My pro experience is almost entirely NodeJS, though I've spent a lot of spare time learning Rust, Erlang/BEAM/Elixir, and Golang.
Before I'd only been perusing the language features of Go, I'm new to actually creating a real REST app. I started by researching frameworks, went through Revel and Beego tutorials. Then I found some very good advice to start with the standard library and only hit the frameworks after knowing the particular requirements demanded of them.
I did want live-reload and containerization; for that I've based my implementation from this seed/boilerplate repo and associated article:
Repo: https://github.com/mikemadisonweb/go-autoreload-example
Article: https://mikemadisonweb.github.io/2018/03/06/go-autoreload/.
After that I'll be using this for a ladder: https://thenewstack.io/make-a-restful-json-api-go/
Associated repo: https://github.com/corylanou/tns-restful-json-api
If Docker-Compose is installed then docker-compose up from the project root directory should run it.
I tested it with Postman.
I'm pressed for time and pretty new to the Golang ecosystem, accordingly spent a lot of time initially getting the Docker and dev environment set up. Things to do yet:
- CSV import/export
- Testing framework : Usually I'd do the tests before or concurrent with the implementation, but in this case I'll need to research first in order to get a good configuration setup.
- Database: I'll probably add Redis to the Docker environment. For now the data is held in process memory.
Otherwise, this is a complete -- if spartan -- REST/CRUD API for an address book.
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Run the app with
docker-compose up
Kill all Docker containers:
docker stop $(docker ps -a -q)
docker rm $(docker ps -a -q)To get an interactive shell in on the docker container:
docker exec -ti <container name> /bin/bash
(<container name> is currently app)
curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"name":"Tghimmmmmheyyy"}' http://localhost:8080/persons