babyapi VS runtime

Now this is the part where I tell you about a library I created, babyapi, and how it makes all of this tedious REST stuff easy!

The availability of app platforms like Acorn and easy-to-use libraries like babyapi take care of the boring and tedious parts of software engineering and let you focus on the things that interest you. Try them out for yourself and let me know what you have any feature requests or issues with babyapi.

All that's left is adding a little style. I won't claim to be a frontend engineer or a UI designer, so I just used UIKit to easily add modern-looking style to the HTML table and buttons. As mentioned throughout the article, the CSS classes and other small details are excluded since they are not directly relevant to the tutorial. See the full example on GitHub to try running it for yourself.

Go is known for being easy to learn and providing the fastest path to production. With HTTP functionality built-in to the standard library, you have everything you need without any external dependencies. The lower-level access to HTTP can be a breath of fresh air if you are accustomed to bloated frameworks, but it results in a lot of boilerplate code which eventually becomes tiring to write over and over. This is where babyapi comes in. I created this library to enable super simple creation of REST APIs without forcing a specific structure on your whole application. It's so easy that a baby could do it!

If you're not already familiar with Acorn, I recommend checking out the official docs to learn more about it! Basically, it is an app platform that makes it easy to deploy cloud applications and their dependencies by describing them in a simple Acornfile. Instead of configuring all of the required Kubernetes manifests to run our application in the cloud, we can just use an Acornfile.

Using open-source command-line tools Draft and Acorn, we'll containerize and deploy to AKS in just a few steps! Let's go 🚀

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What does the following refer to in their GitHub readme?

> Caution: Consuming this project can expose you to chemicals, which are known to the State of California to cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm.

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