Error handling in Go web apps shouldn't be so awkward

• sandwich

  1 68 10.0 Go

  Sandwich is a delicious middleware framework for go that lets you write and test your handlers easily. (by augustoroman)

https://github.com/augustoroman/sandwich is another approach for achieving a similar result. One nice aspect of writing handlers that return errors is that they are easy to test and clean to write.

Sandwich does very simple sequencing to achieve an understandable dependency injection mechanism that produces clear errors when something goes wrong, and it produces errors at setup time rather than run time.

• public-error-go

  1 1 10.0 Go

  A tiny Go library for transparently adding public client messages to error stacks

In general, the way you output errors to the client and the errors you log are two totally different things. This is a slight tweak from the problem the author is attempting to solve by letting the client see the error.

Like the author, I created a special error interface I can look for when returning client errors: https://github.com/Xeoncross/public-error-go

• WorkOS

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• Caddy

  402 53,718 9.5 Go

  Fast and extensible multi-platform HTTP/1-2-3 web server with automatic HTTPS

  

The article basically describes how Caddy does error handling in HTTP routes.

https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/blob/cb86319bd50322d4ac...

• vscode-go

  36 3,733 9.0 TypeScript

  Go extension for Visual Studio Code (by golang)

  

Goland collapses this to a single line, and vscode is looking into it too.

https://github.com/golang/vscode-go/issues/2311

It papers over the issue, but helps some.

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