Go Standard Modular Boilerplate

The various packages used are as follows:

• Gin Gonic - HTTP handler framework
• PGX - PostgreSQL database driver
• Squirrel - SQL query builder
• Scany - Database scanner helper from data to structs
• Kin OpenAPI - OpenAPI 3.0 / Swagger specifications generator from code
• CORS - Gin Gonic CORS middleware
• Go Dot ENV - Dot ENV vars loader
• Zap - Logger package

This boilerplate follows the idiomatic Go code rules, related references below:

• Effective Go - Official Go documentation

This boilerplate requires Golang v1.17+ to run.

Clone the repository then change your current directory to the repository

cd go-standard-modular-boilerplate

Copy the example env file and make the required configuration changes in the .env file

cp .env.example .env

Start the REST server.

make rest

Open the development server by navigating to your server address in your preferred browser.

http://localhost:1234

Go Standard Modular Boilerplate is implementing tools as dependencies with go modules. Instructions on how to use them in the application are linked below.

Run database migrations up.

make migrate-up

Run database migrations down.

make migrate-down