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goa
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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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Does this project structure make sense?
I typically use Goa for my controller. It makes the API Controller, API models, and OpenAPI Documentation. Making the OpenAPI documentation can be a pain, so this really helps. https://goa.design/
Gin
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How to Build and Document a Go REST API with Gin and Go-Swagger
Now let’s define the functions that will be called whenever a request hits our API. All the functions will be referencing the context provided by the Gin web framework. Paste the following code below the sample slice we just added to api.go:
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Password-less Login in Go from Scratch
We will be using Gorilla Mux. As per their last update, they have a new group of maintainers, and their repos have shown activity to confirm that. The tutorial can be easily replicated in any other framework or library as well. So, while we will be using Gorilla Mux, you can try to replicate it in Gin or Fiber as well.
- Autenticação com Golang e AWS Cognito
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Implementing JWT Authentication in a Golang Application
Now, let's dive into the fun part – creating our basic ToDo application using the powerful Gin framework. This section will walk you through the steps, breaking down the code into manageable snippets.
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Build a Serverless GenAI solution with Lambda, DynamoDB, LangChain and Amazon Bedrock
Thanks to the AWS Lambda Web Adapter, the application built as a (good old) REST/HTTP API using a familiar library (in this case, Gin.
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From Django or Flask to Sponge: How to Easily Develop High-Performance Web Services with Golang
Excellent Performance: Sponge is built on the gin framework, providing outstanding performance for web service development.
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Uploading and Serving Images from MongoDB in Golang
In this blog, we will delve into the fascinating realm of handling images in a Golang application, leveraging the power of the Gin framework for RESTful API development, MongoDB as a robust NoSQL database, and the mongo-driver library for seamless interaction with MongoDB. To store images efficiently, we'll explore the intricacies of GridFS, a specification within MongoDB for storing large files as separate chunks.
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Building RESTful API with Hexagonal Architecture in Go
It uses Gin as the HTTP framework and PostgreSQL as the database with pgx as the driver and Squirrel as the query builder. It also utilizes Redis as the caching layer with go-redis as the client.
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Different CORS settings for different paths?
I have created an application with Go in Gin-Gonic. In my frontend (Nuxt3/TypeScript) I always get a CORS error:
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Rapid Prototyping of Design-First APIs in Go
We use Gin web framework https://gin-gonic.com for the routing, Gin provides a balance between performance, ease of use and extensibility making it a preferred choice for building and running web applications in Go.
What are some alternatives?
go-kit - A standard library for microservices.
Fiber - ⚡️ Express inspired web framework written in Go
GoSwagger - Swagger 2.0 implementation for go
mux - A powerful HTTP router and URL matcher for building Go web servers with 🦍
oapi-codegen - Generate Go client and server boilerplate from OpenAPI 3 specifications
chi - lightweight, idiomatic and composable router for building Go HTTP services
Echo - High performance, minimalist Go web framework
gqlgen - go generate based graphql server library
Beego - beego is an open-source, high-performance web framework for the Go programming language.
kratos - Your ultimate Go microservices framework for the cloud-native era.
Iris - The fastest HTTP/2 Go Web Framework. New, modern and easy to learn. Fast development with Code you control. Unbeatable cost-performance ratio :rocket: