This is a skeleton project that provides essentials most web blogs need - MVC pattern, user authorisation, orm, admin dashboard, javascript form validation, rss feeds, etc.
You can check out GinShop for a more modern e-shop bundle.
It consists of the following core components:
- GIN - A web microframework (with best performance atm) for Golang - https://github.com/gin-gonic/gin
- GIN middlewares gin-csrf, gin/contrib/sessions
- gorm - The orm library for go v2 - http://gorm.io/
- Comments with oauth2 authentication
- slog - advanced Go logger - log/slog
- Twitter Bootstrap 5 - popular HTML, CSS, JS framework for developing responsive, mobile first web projects - http://getbootstrap.com
- CKEditor 5 with image upload integration - https://ckeditor.com/ckeditor-5/
- Tom Select - fast and compact <select> enhancement for post tags selection and creation on the fly - https://github.com/orchidjs/tom-select
- bluemonday - html sanitizer (for excerpts, etc) - https://github.com/microcosm-cc/bluemonday
- RSS feeds - https://github.com/gorilla/feeds
- sitemap - XML sitemap for search engines - https://github.com/denisbakhtin/sitemap
- gocron - periodic task launcher (for sitemap generation, etc) - https://github.com/jasonlvhit/gocron
Removed node.js dependency, jquery, replaced select2 with a lightweight Tom Select, updated CKEditor5, Bootstrap 5 with icons, etc..
git clone https://github.com/denisbakhtin/ginblog.git
cd ginblog
go get .
Copy sample config cp config/config.json.example config/config.json, create postgresql database, modify config/config.json accordingly.
Type go run main.go to launch web server.
make build
Upload ginblog binary config, views and public directory to your server.
/config
Contains application configuration file & go wrapper.
/controllers
MVC controllers
/models
Database models.
/public
All web-site static files
/views
Web-site views.
main.go
Main file that starts the application, initializes subsystems and web routes
I assume you have followed installation instructions and you have ginblog installed in your GOPATH location.
Let's say you want to create Amazing Website. Add a new GitHub repository https://github.com/denisbakhtin/amazingblog (of course replace that with your own repo).
Prepare ginblog: delete its .git directory.
Issue:
rm -rf src/github.com/denisbakhtin/ginblog/.git
Replace all references of github.com/denisbakhtin/ginblog with github.com/denisbakhtin/amazingblog:
grep -rl 'github.com/denisbakhtin/ginblog' ./ | xargs sed -i 's/github.com\/denisbakhtin\/ginblog/github.com\/denisbakhtin\/amazingblog/g'
Move all files to the new location:
mv src/github.com/denisbakhtin/ginblog/ src/github.com/denisbakhtin/amazingblog
And push it to the corresponding repo:
cd src/github.com/denisbakhtin/amazingblog
git init
git add --all .
git commit -m "Amazing Blog First Commit"
git remote add origin https://github.com/denisbakhtin/amazingblog.git
git push -u origin master
You can now go back to your GOPATH and check if everything is ok:
go install github.com/denisbakhtin/amazingblog
And that's it.
For Continuous Development a good option is to install fresh - https://github.com/pilu/fresh
Then simply run fresh in the project directory.