Welcome to go-template

This project will jumpstart your Golang project and provide a set of tempaltes you may use to keep your code tidy and consistent.

TLDR

Run this snippet:

cd your-work-dir
bash <(curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rantav/go-template/master/scripts/init.sh) rantav my-awesome-go-project

# replace rantav with your github user or github group
# replace my-awesome-go-project with your project or service name

Here's how it looks like in action:

What does the script go-template.sh do?

This script installs the go-archetype tool and protoc and uses the transformations.yml file in order to initialize a working Golang project on your local disk based on the template project go-template. The script also initializes an empty git repo and adds the origin specific by your username/group and project-name.

This tool then asks for your input in order to determine the contents and structure of your project.

What's in the box?

The generated project results in:

• Makefile
• README.md (which you have to edit to add contents)
• admin package, which includes healthchecks, basic support for gRPC tracing and metrics
  • Admin http pages at /_/health.json and /_/metrics.json
  • A first healthcheck (checking gRPC to our local service)
• cmd package which includes CLI args support
  • Two CLI args: admin-bind-address and grpc-bind-address
• Go modules files (go.mod and a generaged go.sum)
• grpc package with an idl file, a client and a server (which you'll have to edit in order to implement your business logic)
  • gRPC instrumentation interface at /_/zpages/rpcz, /_/zpages/tracez and /_/channelz
  • grpc already has a gRPC healthcheck
• git precommit hood that runs lint.
• Tracing, using Jaeger.
• and some more...

When creating the project you are asked whether you'd like to include gRPC support. This of course results in different code.

gRPC flavour

Here's the source tree when choosing to use gRPC:

➜  my-awesome-go-project git:(master) ✗ tree
.
├── Makefile
├── README.md
├── admin
│   ├── grpc-healthcheck.go
│   ├── grpc-healthcheckt_test.go
│   ├── healthcheck.go
│   ├── healthcheck_test.go
│   ├── package.go
│   ├── server.go
│   └── tracing.go
├── assets
│   └── README.md
├── cmd
│   ├── flags.go
│   ├── root.go
│   ├── serve.go
│   ├── serve_test.go
│   ├── test-grpc-client.go
│   └── test-grpc-client_test.go
├── docs
│   └── README.md
├── examples
│   └── README.md
├── go.mod
├── go.sum
├── grpc
│   ├── client
│   │   └── grpc-client.go
│   ├── idl
│   │   └── service.proto
│   └── server
│       ├── grpc-server.go
│       └── grpc-server_test.go
├── internal
│   └── generated
│       └── grpc
│           └── service.pb.go
├── main.go
├── pkg
│   └── README.md
├── scripts
│   └── README.md
├── service
│   └── service.go
├── test
│   └── README.md
├── tools
│   └── README.md
├── types
│   └── types.go
└── web
    └── README.md

Non gRPC flavour

Here's the source tree when choosing not to use gRPC:

➜  my-awesome-go-project git:(master) ✗ tree
.
├── Makefile
├── README.md
├── admin
│   ├── healthcheck.go
│   ├── healthcheck_test.go
│   ├── package.go
│   └── server.go
├── assets
│   └── README.md
├── cmd
│   ├── flags.go
│   ├── root.go
│   ├── serve.go
│   └── serve_test.go
├── docs
│   └── README.md
├── examples
│   └── README.md
├── go.mod
├── go.sum
├── main.go
├── pkg
│   └── README.md
├── scripts
│   └── README.md
├── service
│   └── service.go
├── test
│   └── README.md
├── tools
│   └── README.md
├── types
│   └── types.go
└── web
    └── README.md

In Depth

We use a tool called go-archetype for templating. This tool is used in order to transition a blueprint codebase to a project instance. The user provides the required input and thereafter the tool transforms the blueprint project into your own personal project.

Tools

We use and install several tools, namely go-archetype, protoc and some related tools. We install them all in /tmp and they are versioned. In the future, if prooved useful, we might install them in other location outside of tmp

---

The following part is going to be part of the actual generated project

Welcome to go-template

A template project

Purpose

TODO: Explain what this service does

High level design

TODO: Explain the design

Use http://asciiflow.com/ to show your diagrams

+---------+           +---------+
| Service |           | Service |
|    A    |           |    B    |
|         +---------->+         |
|         |           |         |
+---------+           +---------+

How to use

TODO

Debugging the service.

• Use AF_LOG_LEVEL to increase log level (levels are: panic, fatal, error, warning, info, debug, trace)
• Use GRPC_GO_LOG_VERBOSITY_LEVEL=99 and GRPC_GO_LOG_SEVERITY_LEVEL=info to increase logging verbosity of gRPC
• Access http://localhost:8080/_/health.json for healthchecks
• Access http://localhost:8080/_/metrics.json for healthchecks
• Access http://localhost:8080/_/zpages/rpcz for gRPC stats
• Access http://localhost:8080/_/zpages/tracez for gRPC tracing
• Access http://localhost:8080/_/channelz for gRPC channel UI