This is my boilerplate for a Go http server project. Feedback and suggestions are encouraged!
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gohttpserver
This is my boilerplate for a go HTTP server, designed to be a starting point template for new projects, with most things conveniently stubbed out and ready for simple and fast customization, with sane defaults.
Many ideas are taken from Mat Ryer's talk titled "How I Write HTTP Web Services after Eight Years" at GopherCon 2019, seen here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWBSMsLG8po
Contributing
Contributions are welcome! Please send me an email if you'd like an account on this server to submit PRs.
Alternately, even just feedback is great: sneak@sneak.berlin
Features
- Basic logging middleware
- Stub Authentication middleware
- Helper functions for encoding/decoding json
- Healthcheck route
- Prometheus metrics endpoint
- No global state of our own
- some deps have some, such as the metrics collector and Sentry
Design Decisions
- no TLS in this code
- do it somewhere else, like on a sidecar or reverse proxy
- this might have to change to support http > 1 later
- logging: rs/zerolog
- configuration: spf13/viper
- used as a wrapper around env vars, because of typed getters
- router is Chi: go-chi/chi
- Prometheus-style metrics via slok/go-http-metrics
- code formatted with mvdan.cc/gofumpt
- code style checked with golangci/golangci-lint
Pending Design Decisions
- database: TBD (thinking about go-gorm/gorm)
- templating: TBD (suggestions welcome)
TODO
- Basic HTML Templates
- Database Boilerplate
- Sessions Middleware
- sync.Once example for re-compiling templates
- Bundling static assets into binary
Known Bugs (more TODO)
- Chi recovery middleware logs non-json when in non-tty stdout mode, breaking validity of stdout as a json stream
Author
License
WTFPL (aka public domain):
DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
Version 2, December 2004
Copyright (C) 2004 Sam Hocevar <sam@hocevar.net>
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim or modified
copies of this license document, and changing it is allowed as long
as the name is changed.
DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION
0. You just DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO.