hord VS babyapi

In an effort to provide actual persistent storage out of the box, the babyapi/storage package uses madflojo/hord to support a variety of key-value store backends. Additionally, babyapi/storage provides helper functions for initializing the hord client for Redis or file-based storage.

Determined to implement generics and delete some lines of code, I turned my sights to the storage layer of my application. I designed my storage around key-value pairs since I started by storing resources in YAML files. This eventually evolved to use madflojo/hord to interact with key-value data stores like Redis. The function to read a *pkg.Garden from storage looks like this:

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!