17 Media backend boilerplate

A boilerplate application for building backend service using go.

Folder structure

• controllers/ - defines your app routes and their logic
• utils/ - code and functionality to be shared by different parts of the project
• middlewares/ - Express middlewares which process the incoming requests before handling them down to the routes
• models/ - represents data, implements business logic and handles storage
• config/ - this folder contains configuration files, such as application settings, constants, ..., etc.
• public/ - contains all static files like images, styles and javascript assets
• glide.yaml - dependencies pacakge management
• glide.lock - paired with glide.yaml
• .editorconfig - settings of editor such as indent size/style, charset, newline character, ..., etc. Please install EditorConfig to automatically apply settings
• main.go - app start from here

make sure you have GOPATH set up properly

Docker

To build docker build -t boilerplate .

To run

docker run -v `pwd`:/go/src/app -e "dev=1" -p 3000:3000 --name="test" boilerplate`
-e dev=1 to turn on dev mode

Note

• please put _test.go files adjacent to the file, e.g. controllers/index.go will have controllers/index_test.go for testing

Todo

• Environment specific configs