Go Web

a demo for building web application in Go

Tech Stack

1. Dependency Injection - Wire
2. HTTP Web Framework - Gin
3. Session Management - Gin-Session, Redis
4. Database ORM - Gorm
5. Database - Postgres
6. Load Configuration - Viper

Secure Cookies

• SameSite (LAX Mode): cookies are sent when the request is navigating to the original site
• Secure: cookies only sent when using https connection
• HttpOnly: client side cannot touch the cookies

Spin up a Postgres instance with Docker

go to .postgres directory and run:

export POSTGRES_PASSWORD=your password
docker-compose up -d

Start up a Redis instance for session

please use Docker to install the Redis image

Configuration

configure your database host, username and password at dev.env