Galore
A todo app backend in Go, written in an attempt to demonstrate a minimalistic and idiomatic backend that can be used as an example to build web APIs.
Features
- Routing
- Middlewares
- Rich error response
- Ease of extension
- Logging
Dependencies
- github.com/julienschmidt/httprouter
- gopkg.in/yaml.v2
Installation
Import the repository
go get github.com/mantishK/galore
Import dependencies
cd $GOPATH/github.com/mantishK/galore
go get ./...
Override configurations
Configurations can be overridden either via file or command line arguments
File
Copy config/config.yaml to any path and set the path name as environment variable "GALORE_CONFIG".
e.g -
cp $GOPATH/github.com/mantishK/galore/config/config.yaml /tmp/
export GALORE_CONFIG=/tmp/config.yaml
Flags
Configurations can be set as arguments while running the application
e.g -
galore -pg_uname=postgres -pg_pass="" -pg_name=todo -pg_ip=192.168.59.103 -pg_port=5432
Create tables necessary
The sql dump required for Galore is available at extra/galore.sql
Postman link for checking APIs
Download the collection from this link
Running the application
Without installing
cd $GOPATH/github.com/mantishK/galore
go run main.go
Installing
go install github.com/mantishK/galore
galore
Contributing
Contributions welcome via Github pull requests and issues.
Credits
Most of my work is heavily inspired by MatRyer's talk at Golang UK Conference held at London.
License
This project is licensed under the MIT License. Please refer the License.txt file.