article-manager

A simple web app with microservice written in Golang and Gin, to manager articles.

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├── LICENSE
├── README.md
├── common_test.go
├── go.mod
├── go.sum
├── handlers.article.go
├── handlers.article_test.go
├── main.go
├── models.article.go
├── models.article_test.go
├── routes.go
└── templates
    ├── article.html
    ├── footer.html
    ├── header.html
    ├── index.html
    └── menu.html

setup envs

• golang

features

• Let users register with a username and a password (non-logged in users only)
• Let users login with a username and a password (non-logged in users only)
• Let users log out (logged in users only)
• Let users create new articles (logged in users only)
• Display the list of all articles on the home page (for all users)
• Display a single article on its own page (for all users)

how it works

• control flow

  Request -> Route Parser -> [Optional Middleware] -> Route Handler -> [Optional Middleware] -> Response
  

• functionalities offered by Gin
  • Routing — to handle various URLs
  • Custom rendering — to handle the response format
  • Middleware — to implement authentication

run & deploy

• run

  go run mian.go

• visit localhost:8080

reference

• Building Go Web Applications and Microservices Using Gin