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MIT License | Mozilla Public License 2.0 |
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IBM to Acquire HashiCorp, Inc
My experience of Golang is that dependency injection doesn't really have much benefit. It felt like a square peg in a round hole exercise when my team considered it. The team was almost exclusively Java/Typescript Devs so it was something that we thought we needed but I don't believe we actually missed once we decided to not pursue it.
If you are looking at OpenAPI in Golang I can recommend having a look at https://goa.design/. It's a DSL that generates OpenAPI specs and provides an implementation of the endpoints described. Can also generate gRPC from the same definitions.
We found this removed the need to write almost all of the API layer and a lot of the associated validation. We found the generated code including the server element to be production ready from the get go.
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Microservices communication
See https://goa.design/. It automates all the comms stuff, so you just write: 1) a design file showing your functions, 2) an implantation of those functions, and 3) a very generic "main.go" (basically the same for all your services) that decides "how is this exposed over gRPC or REST or other comms?". The rest of the code is generated.
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Create Production-Ready SDKs with Goa
Perhaps the easiest way to find out how to do something (especially when using Meta) is to search the test cases when you have cloned the source code.
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Which is the best framework to create web apps with go?
If you really need a framework, you can take a look at Echo or, for a contract-first approach, https://goa.design/
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OpenAPI v4 Proposal
Few folks in here are (rightly) frustrated with the code generation story and broader tooling support around the OpenAPI standard. I've found a few alternative approaches quite nice to work with:
- Use a DSL to describe your service and have it spit out the OpenAPI spec as well as server stubs. In other words, I wouldn't bother writing OpenAPI directly - it's an artifact that is generated at build time. As a Go user, I quite like Goa (https://goa.design/) but there are others shared in here like TypeSpec.
- There are situations where sticking a backend-for-frontend (BFF) in front of APIs can yield great productivity boosts. For example, in the past we built a thin GraphQL proxy that calls out to a poorly structured REST API. Integrating with that was much more convenient. Most recently, I've been playing with a BFF built with tRPC (https://trpc.io/) which calls out to a REST API. It seemed to provide an even better experience if you use TypeScript on the front-end and in the BFF. It does not have a codegen step and I was really pleased with how fast I could iterate with it - granted it was a toy project.
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Beginner-friendly API made with Go following hexagonal architecture.
One of the biggest issues I see is that you are using the same models for API as you are for the database. That wouldn’t fly in a real work system. And even though your doing simple CRUD I would introduce another layer for business logic. You should never have the Controller calling you database code directly. It never “stays” that simplistic. One of the easiest ways to deal with this is to use Goa. https://goa.design/ It takes care of generating your API models and it creates the Interfaces to implement for your business logic. Furthermore it creates OpenAPI documentation (something missing in this design that is a must for commercial development).
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Go with PHP
I left PHP for Go.
- with http://sqlc.dev I don't have to write ORM or model code anymore.
- with http://goa.design I can have well-documented API's that any team can generate a client for in any language. It also generates the HTTP JSON and gRPC servers for me so I can focus on my logic.
- with https://github.com/99designs/gqlgen I can define GraphQL revolvers that play well with sqlc (any RDBMS) or I can use a key-value store.
- speaking of key-value stores, Go allows them to be embedded! Even SQLite now has the https://litestream.io/ project to make it super simple to use a durable, always backed-up SQLite database even in a serverless context.
Go is faster, uses less memory, and has really-well designed stdlib without all the bugs I used to face trying to use the PHP stdlib.
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Do you really need microservices?
Goa and Kong are some of the best frameworks to develop and deploy microservices. They provide features such as out-of-the-box support for service discovery, routing and authentication that make it easier to build more complex applications. There are also newer architectural frameworks with less steep learning curves like GPTDeploy that lets you build and deploy microservices with a single command.
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Dumb question about APIs, Mux and Go
Or the one we use at work: https://goa.design/ Goa does a lot more and maybe more than you need. We use it as it can generate both REST and gRPC as well as API models and OpenAPI documentation (JSON and YAML).
- Why is gin so popular?
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Build and deploy a REST API with Postgres database in TypeScript
In this tutorial you will create a REST API for a URL Shortener service using Encore for TypeScript, a new way of building fully type-safe and production-ready distributed systems in TypeScript using declarative infrastructure.
- How I keep myself Alive using Golang
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Using Pub/Sub for event-driven Go backends
At Encore, we've made it easier by making Pub/Sub is a native component in Encore's Open Source Infrastructure SDK.
- Encore releases automatic tracing in tests
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Building an Appointment Booking app in Go
⭐️ Support the project by starring Encore on GitHub.
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Pocketbase: Open-source back end in 1 file
Very cool. Reminds me of the encore framework, also written in go: https://github.com/encoredev/encore
Need to spend some more time looking into these go based frameworks, they seem great for quick prototyping
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Build a URL Shortener in Go using REST & PostgreSQL 🚀
package url import ( "context" "testing" ) // TestShortenAndRetrieve - test that the shortened URL is stored and retrieved from database. func TestShortenAndRetrieve(t *testing.T) { testURL := "https://github.com/encoredev/encore" sp := ShortenParams{URL: testURL} resp, err := Shorten(context.Background(), &sp) if err != nil { t.Fatal(err) } wantURL := testURL if resp.URL != wantURL { t.Errorf("got %q, want %q", resp.URL, wantURL) } firstURL := resp gotURL, err := Get(context.Background(), firstURL.ID) if err != nil { t.Fatal(err) } if *gotURL != *firstURL { t.Errorf("got %v, want %v", *gotURL, *firstURL) } }
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Ask HN: What would be your stack if you are building an MVP today?
For something in the same vein but for Go, there is Encore: https://encore.dev / https://github.com/encoredev/encore
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How to build a Go microservices backend in 5 minutes
The framework is Open Source and the Encore platform provides free cloud hosting for hobby projects.
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nitric VS encore - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 9 Dec 2022
Encore is a backend framework for creating cloud backend applications where infrastructure is provisioned automatically from business logic.
What are some alternatives?
Gin - Gin is a HTTP web framework written in Go (Golang). It features a Martini-like API with much better performance -- up to 40 times faster. If you need smashing performance, get yourself some Gin.
go-kit - A standard library for microservices.
trpc - 🧙♀️ Move Fast and Break Nothing. End-to-end typesafe APIs made easy.
GoSwagger - Swagger 2.0 implementation for go
wire - Compile-time Dependency Injection for Go
oapi-codegen - Generate Go client and server boilerplate from OpenAPI 3 specifications
gowsdl - WSDL2Go code generation as well as its SOAP proxy
Echo - High performance, minimalist Go web framework
gqlgen - go generate based graphql server library
nitric - Nitric is a multi-language framework for cloud applications with infrastructure from code.