Minor API project for Golang

• In order to run the project you need to have sqlc please check https://github.com/sqlc-dev/sqlc
• Goose to handle Database migrations https://github.com/pressly/goose

Project demonstrates how to create Go Backend project using

• chi for Router
• sqlc for compiling sql into type safe code
• goose to handle the database migrations

Start the application

create .env file at root

PORT=8080
POSTGRESQL=postgres://username:password@localhost:5432/db-name
GOOSE_DRIVER=postgres
GOOSE_DBSTRING=${POSTGRESQL}
GOOSE_MIGRATION_DIR=./internal/db/migrations

make run

Before Opening MR

• make sure to sure to run make lint to check for linter bugs

For Migrations

• if you want to create new migration run make migrate-create n=name-of-migration it will create new file in internal/db/migrations with the correct name edit the up and down statements.
• make you database up to date make migrate-up.
• with make migrate-down please remove the associated file with it as well.
• Make migrations file for atomic operations.

For Linting on the local machine

Install golangci-lint Link recommended way is to put it in the golang binary directory

curl -sSfL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/golangci/golangci-lint/master/install.sh | sh -s -- -b $(go env GOPATH)/bin VERSION_NUMBER_HERE

add the $(go env GOPATH) to PATH

For VsCode users

"go.lintTool" : "golangci-lint",
"go.lintFlags": [
"--fast"
]