Go Gin + go-pg realworld example application

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• Same app but with treemux instead of Gin

Introduction

This project implements JSON API as specified in RealWorld spec. It was created to demonstrate how to use:

• Gin Web framework
• go-pg PostgreSQL client and ORM.
• Caching using Redis.
• Rate limiting using Redis.
• go-pg/migrations.
• Tracing using uptrace-go.

Project structure

Project consists of the following packages:

• rwe global package parses configs, establishes DB connections etc.
• org package manages users and tokens.
• blog package manages articles and comments.
• app folder contains application resources such as config.
• cmd/api runs HTTP server with JSON API.
• cmd/migrate_db command that runs SQL migrations.

The most interesting part for go-pg users is probably article filter.

Project bootstrap

First of all you need to create a config file changing defaults as needed:

cp app/config/dev.yml.default app/config/dev.yml

Project comes with a Makefile that contains following recipes:

• make db_reset drops existing database and creates a new one.
• make test runs unit tests.
• make api_test runs API tests provided by RealWorld.

After checking that tests are passing you can start API HTTP server:

go run cmd/api/*.go -env=dev