Let's Go by Alex Edwards

Working through Alex's book to develop my knowledge and experience with Golang.

I've done a few experiments in the past but continue to be curious about this language.

Getting Started

I'm using v1.25.4 of Go, so make sure you have that installed from https://go.dev/doc/install then execute go run ./cmd/web in your terminal from the root of the repository.

Notable Deviations

• I've decided to go with PostgreSQL rather than the suggested use of mysql and am using docker to host the database. There is a docker-compose.yml file in the root of this repository, use docker compose -f ./docker-compose.yml up to pull the image and kick start the database before running the application
  • Used golang-migrate to manage the database schema. Check out the freecodecamp tutorial for more details.