golang-rest-mongodb

Starter REST API + MongoDB Connection example written in GoLang

Copy the .env file

cp .env.example .env

Add your MongoDB connection to the .env file

DB_NAME=your_database_name
DB_URL=mongodb://<user_name>:<password>@<host>:<port>/<dbname>

Run the application

go run main.go

Endpoints

The starter has 2 endpoints:

Insert a document in the database

POST /api/person

Payload:

{
    "firstname": "hello",
    "lastname": "world",
    "age": 25
}

Retrieve the document from the database

GET /api/person/{personID}