Gin boilerplate

A fast way to develop gin rest apis with golang

This includes authorization middleware and JWt middleware. It already has user service, but it's up to you to add other things.

What you need

Make sure you have all these golang packages.

go get github.com/jinzhu/gorm
go get github.com/dgrijalva/jwt-go
go get github.com/gin-gonic/gin
go get golang.org/x/crypto/bcrypt

After that you need a .env file which includes the connection string for the database and the port. Like so:

DB_CONFIG=user:password@/dbname?charset=utf8&parseTime=True&loc=Local
PORT=8080

You can change the database from the default MySQL to whatever, in the /database/database.go file. All the migrations are handled by gorm upon running main.go. After all this you can type go run main.go to start the api.

Adding things

To add things like models can be done by adding a new file to /database/models. For example let's add a post:

package models

import (
    "github.com/jinzhu/gorm"
    "github.com/nireo/gin-boilerplate/lib/common" // import the json data type alias
)

// Post data model
type Post struct {
    gorm.Model
    Title   string `sql:"type:text;"`
    Content string `sql:"type:text;"`
}

// Serialize the post data
func (p Post) Serialize() common.JSON {
    return common.JSON{
        "id":         p.ID,
        "content":    p.Content,
        "title":      p.Title,
        "created_at": p.CreatedAt,
    }
}