If you could go back in time | What would you do different regarding go

• golang-standards/project-layout

  195 45,852 6.4 Makefile

  Standard Go Project Layout

  

When I started learning golang almost 9 years ago I've learned myself to structure it like a Laravel framework. The main api is also build in that fashion and to big to split it up or rebuild it.. Which bit me in the ass quite a few times. I recently switched job and am unlearning the MVC setup and trying to build it more like described here : https://github.com/golang-standards/project-layout

• service

  18 3,370 9.5 Go

  Starter-kit for writing services in Go using Kubernetes. (by ardanlabs)

  

So what can you do insted? For testing databases, setup a docker instance for tests (e.g. like in https://github.com/ardanlabs/service), or start an embedded-postgres daemon (see https://github.com/fergusstrange/embedded-postgres). For communication with external APIs, just pass the http.Client (either in context.Context or as a field on the struct). Then in tests, you can override the http.Client.Transport func.

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• embedded-postgres

  4 744 5.2 Go

  Run a real Postgres database locally on Linux, OSX or Windows as part of another Go application or test

So what can you do insted? For testing databases, setup a docker instance for tests (e.g. like in https://github.com/ardanlabs/service), or start an embedded-postgres daemon (see https://github.com/fergusstrange/embedded-postgres). For communication with external APIs, just pass the http.Client (either in context.Context or as a field on the struct). Then in tests, you can override the http.Client.Transport func.

• go-training

  1 211 1.4 Go

  Go Training Repositories regroups some useful resources to learn Go Programming Language

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