Snippetbox

This is a full-stack Go web application called Snippetbox that lets people paste and share snippets of text — a bit like GitHub's Gists or Pastebin.

Features

Save and view snippets.
Middleware.
RESTful routing.
SSL/TLS web server using HTTP 2.0.
User authentication. User can signup and login.
Leveled logging.
Data persistence using MySQL database.
Dynamic HTML using Go templates
Session management
Web security

Development

Software requirements:

This project supports Go modules. Go 1.13+ is required.
MySQL

To start the local web server with HTTPS on port 4000:

$ git clone https://github.com/IkehAkinyemi/go-pastebin
$ cd go-pastebin

# Generate TLS key and cert, and then run
$ make tls

$ make server

Dependencies

This project is all based on the standard library. You don't need a framework to build web applications in Go. Go's standard library contains almost all the tools that you need, even for a moderately complex application. The book teaches you to build web applications using the standard library (rather than using a specific framework like Echo, Chi or Gin). A few small external packages are used where it makes sense for security reasons and to reduce complexity.

Things I Learned

Go for web development using just the standard library.
How to start small and iteratively improve the codebase by refactoring.
How to structure a project and create testable packages.
How to create maintainable web applications.
Basic web security.
How HTTPS works.