Go Starter Kit

This project is opinionated Go starter kit / golang boilerplate that uses the golang standards project layout, using best and proven libraries and implements best practices for great foundation of Golang API project.

Background

When I want to start to build Go API project, i don't have a good solid base to start and usually I add the library and add another required thing one by one along the time, and then change again if I find another better library or another better way to do thing. So I tried to research architecture, library and software component/layer that I think better suits to be included for solid golang project.

Architecture

This project follows SOLID & Clean architecture

Features

• Versioning
• Pagination
• Configuration
• Logging
• Error Handling
• Validation
• Health Check
• Data Seed
• DB Migration
• Run & Manage via CLI Command
• Makefile
• Linter
• Unit Test
• Docker & Docker Compose
• Integration Test sample

Todo:

• Add more examples for service, repository and test
• JWT base Authentication
• Observability/Metrics
• Kubernetes deployment
• Use Cobra for CLI
• Viper for better handling env and config

Website

Github: https://github.com/qreasio/go-starter-kit

Gostarterkit site: https://gostarterkit.com

Go Libraries

• Go 1.14
• Base web framework & Routing using github.com/go-chi/chi
• Validation with github.com/go-playground/validator/
• Database with github.com/jmoiron/sqlx
• Logging with go.uber.org/zap
• Migration with github.com/go-migrate/migration
• YAML with gopkg.in/yaml.v2
• Linter with github.com/golangci/golangci-lint
• Go static analysis with staticcheck.io https://github.com/dominikh/go-tools
• Mock generator using github.com/golang/mock

Get Started

Below are the steps if you want to run locally without docker

1. Set required environment variable

   ENV=local

2. Set configuration

   Change config/local.yaml configuration value properly and make sure can connect to blank MySQL database properly

3. Run migration

   make migrate

4. Add seed data

   make seed

5. Run app

   make run

6. Open the browser

   Visit the url

   http://localhost:8080/v1/users

Run Test

go test -v ./internal/user/...

Get Started Using Docker Compose

Below are the steps if you want to run locally with docker & docker compose

1. Build docker image

   Generate the docker imgae by this command:

   docker build --rm -t starterkitapi -f dockerfile.api .

2. Run with docker compose

   Copy the sample.env to .env and adjust it then run the docker compose with this command:

   docker-compose up

3. Open the browser

   Visit the url

   http://localhost:8080/v1/users

4. Quit & Cleanup

   Click Ctrl+C to quit in console then run these commands below to clean up all things:

   docker-compose rm -v

Inspiration

Golang Project Layout https://github.com/golang-standards/project-layout

ArdanLabs Service https://github.com/ardanlabs/service

GORSK - GO(lang) Restful Starter Kit https://github.com/ribice/gorsk/

Go REST API starter kit https://github.com/qiangxue/go-rest-api

Author

Isak Rickyanto

Twitter: @isakric

Personal site: https://rickyanto.com