Simple RESTful API starter Kit in Golang

Blazingly fast RESTful API starter in Golang for small to medium scale projects.

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes. See deployment for notes on how to deploy the project on a live system.

Prerequisites

For smooth execution make sure you have these installed:

• Go 1.16+
• make
• entr

Installation

A step by step guide that will tell you how to get the development environment up and running.

$ make
$ make build
$ ./autoreload.sh 
$ done😃

Deployment

• run make build
• add your domain to nginx.conf in the config diretory
• once there is a binary named "api.out", copy it into the appropriate directory of your choice
• copy nginx.conf to from config directory to /etc/ngnix/sites-available/{nameoftyoursite} on production web server
• create a symbolic link from the file you just copied and direct it /etc/ngnix/sites-enabled/{nameoftyoursite} on your server
• the site should then be accessible by domain

Packages

• chi
• go-Json
• godotenv
• logrus
• viper
• mysql
• gorm

Contributions

With your help we can make this a real good starter template for starting a web service. Contributions are welcome!

License

All contributions will be licensed as Apache 2.0