Restful API with Golang practical approach

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  • migrate

    Database migrations. CLI and Golang library.

    The initial requirement before we start our tutorial is to make sure that you have the following installed setup on your computer: 1) Golang (https://go.dev/doc/install) 2) IDE of your choice VSCode or GoLand JetBrains. 3) Postgresql (https://www.postgresql.org/download/) 4) Insomnia (https://insomnia.rest/) 5) Golang-Migrate (https://github.com/golang-migrate/migrate/blob/master/cmd/migrate/README.md)

  • mux

    Discontinued A powerful HTTP router and URL matcher for building Go web servers with 🦍

    mux: Package gorilla/mux implements a request router and dispatcher for matching incoming requests to their respective handler. Read in full from here (https://github.com/gorilla/mux)

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  • logrus

    Structured, pluggable logging for Go.

    logrus: Logrus is a structured logger for Go (golang), completely API compatible with the standard library logger. (https://github.com/sirupsen/logrus)

  • sqlx

    general purpose extensions to golang's database/sql

    sqlx: sqlx is a library which provides a set of extensions on go's standard database/sql library. (https://github.com/jmoiron/sqlx)

  • pq

    Pure Go Postgres driver for database/sql

  • govalidator

    [Go] Package of validators and sanitizers for strings, numerics, slices and structs

    govalidator: A package of validators and sanitisers for strings, structs and collections (https://github.com/asaskevich/govalidator)

  • insomnia

    The open-source, cross-platform API client for GraphQL, REST, WebSockets, SSE and gRPC. With Cloud, Local and Git storage.

    The initial requirement before we start our tutorial is to make sure that you have the following installed setup on your computer: 1) Golang (https://go.dev/doc/install) 2) IDE of your choice VSCode or GoLand JetBrains. 3) Postgresql (https://www.postgresql.org/download/) 4) Insomnia (https://insomnia.rest/) 5) Golang-Migrate (https://github.com/golang-migrate/migrate/blob/master/cmd/migrate/README.md)

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  • godotenv

    A Go port of Ruby's dotenv library (Loads environment variables from .env files)

    envconfig: Library for managing configuration data from environment variables (https://github.com/joho/godotenv)

  • rest-api

    The source code for this tutorial can be found here

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