An example API written in Golang using the Amazon Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM).

Go is arguably one of the easiest languages in which to write a RESTful API. With the addition of Go support for AWS Lambda coupled with the maturity of tooling around the AWS Serverless Application Model, deploying the API to serverless infrastructure is becoming much more straightforward, too. Thanks to the APEX Gateway, you can even write APIs in a familiar manner without changing how the code is structured.

The purpose of this project is to give a slightly more complicated example than the "hello world" ones provided by Amazon to show how Go's standard net/http package can play nicely in a serverless world with AWS API Gateway and Lambda. It also shows how you can use Go and Amazon's tooling to develop and test your API locally within in this model.

• An AWS account
• Golang
• Docker
• Node.js
• AWS Command Line Interface
• AWS SAM Local

With a correctly configured Go toolchain:

go get -u github.com/cpliakas/aws-sam-golang-example

⚠️ Make sure to install all the Prerequisites. On Mac OSX and Windows, ensure that the Docker VM is running.

Build the binary, and run the API locally:

GOOS=linux go build -o main
sam local start-api

You can now consume the API using your tool of choice. HTTPie is pretty awesome.

http localhost:3000/hello

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Length: 28
Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf8
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2018 20:12:07 GMT

{
    "message": "Hello, world!"
}