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.