logo VS zerolog

Most golang backends I've seen meanwhile use or switched to using the "gin" framework to build their APIs.

A lot of them also have conventions for the frontend, where the assets usually are stored in /public, so they can be go:embed later as an embed.FS instance into the binary.

Having said that, there's plenty of examples on github. I'd recommend to take a look at bigger projects or templates and understand how they structured their packages and abstraction levels. E.g. go-admin comes to mind [1]

[1] https://github.com/GoAdminGroup/go-admin

[2] https://github.com/gin-gonic/gin

Excellent Performance: Sponge is built on the gin framework, providing outstanding performance for web service development.

The web framework uses gin. It also includes swagger documents, common service governance function codes, and build and deployment scripts. You can choose which database to use.

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When it comes to Web Development I would recommend taking a closer look at some standard library packages like net and encoding. Looking at some Web Development open-source frameworks / libraries might be helpful as well. Gin is one of them.

IDE: use whatever make you productive. I personally use vscode. VCS: git, as golang communities use github heavily as base for many libraries. AFAIK Linter: use staticcheck for linting as it looks like mostly used linting tool in go, supported by many also. In Vscode it will be recommended once you install go plugin. Libraries/Framework: actually the standard libraries already included many things you need, decent enough for your day-to-day development cycles(e.g. `net/http`). But here are things for extra: - Struct fields validator: validator - Http server lib: chi router , httprouter , fasthttp (for non standard http implementations, but fast) - Web Framework: echo , gin , fiber , beego , etc - Http client lib: most already covered by stdlib(net/http), so you rarely need extra lib for this, but if you really need some are: resty - CLI: cobra - Config: godotenv , viper - DB Drivers: sqlx , postgre , sqlite , mysql - nosql: redis , mongodb , elasticsearch - ORM: gorm , entgo , sqlc(codegen) - JS Transpiler: gopherjs - GUI: fyne - grpc: grpc - logging: zerolog - test: testify , gomock , dockertest - and many others you can find here

The back-end is going to be written in Golang, using a Gin, Gorm, and a Postgres DB, so bonus points if you are familiar with Go!

Here's Express for Node.js, Flask for Python, Alfred for Dart, and Gin for Go; that's four different software packages for four completely different programming languages that all do very similar things. Take a look and see which one feels best, and start from there!

Be aware that there is a performance impact compared to using zerolog directly [0] (my uneducated guess is it is likely due to pointer indirection).

[0]: https://github.com/rs/zerolog/issues/571#issuecomment-166202...

Things I can't live without in a new Go project in no particular order:

- https://github.com/golangci/golangci-lint - meta-linter

- https://goreleaser.com - automate release workflows

- https://magefile.org - build tool that can version your tools

- https://github.com/ory/dockertest/v3 - run containers for e2e testing

- https://github.com/ecordell/optgen - generate functional options

- https://golang.org/x/tools/cmd/stringer - generate String()

- https://mvdan.cc/gofumpt - stricter gofmt

- https://github.com/stretchr/testify - test assertion library

- https://github.com/rs/zerolog - logging

- https://github.com/spf13/cobra - CLI framework

FWIW, I just lifted all the tools we use for https://github.com/authzed/spicedb

We've also written some custom linters that might be useful for other folks: https://github.com/authzed/spicedb/tree/main/tools/analyzers

Can you compare it against zerolog?

Hello gophers, I am using https://github.com/uber-go/fx and https://github.com/rs/zerolog for logging.

Hovewer it is not bad to export such a function, if it is done purely for convenience. For example github.com/rs/zerolog works on a logger instances, which can be created manually, but they also provide a github.com/rs/zerolog/blob//log package, which provide you access to the global logger which is more convenient in most cases

IDE: use whatever make you productive. I personally use vscode. VCS: git, as golang communities use github heavily as base for many libraries. AFAIK Linter: use staticcheck for linting as it looks like mostly used linting tool in go, supported by many also. In Vscode it will be recommended once you install go plugin. Libraries/Framework: actually the standard libraries already included many things you need, decent enough for your day-to-day development cycles(e.g. `net/http`). But here are things for extra: - Struct fields validator: validator - Http server lib: chi router , httprouter , fasthttp (for non standard http implementations, but fast) - Web Framework: echo , gin , fiber , beego , etc - Http client lib: most already covered by stdlib(net/http), so you rarely need extra lib for this, but if you really need some are: resty - CLI: cobra - Config: godotenv , viper - DB Drivers: sqlx , postgre , sqlite , mysql - nosql: redis , mongodb , elasticsearch - ORM: gorm , entgo , sqlc(codegen) - JS Transpiler: gopherjs - GUI: fyne - grpc: grpc - logging: zerolog - test: testify , gomock , dockertest - and many others you can find here

I use zerolog myself and have seen it being used in production several times. Also they have a list of who uses zerolog

This would be so awesome if it was extending an awesome logger like https://github.com/rs/zerolog. Personally I love zerolog because of how it handles different data types including structs!

logrus README recommended using other libraries such as Zerolog, Zap, and Apex.