An example Golang Web Application
See me live at hey.fyi!
When I first started developing websites in the Go programming language, I frequently wished that there was a complete example of a simple but complete web application that I could inspect.
heyfyi aims to fill the need that I had as a developer. This project is designed to be a complete example for the novice developer, featuring basics such as a secure accounts system, email transmission, in-depth templating, and a basic AJAX api for some web requests.
The program was designed around the gocraft mux and middleware package.
It is built to the following architecture diagram:
Absolutely. It is possible that there are mistakes, conceptual or otherwise, in the code. If you spot any, please submit an issue or a pull request!
In addition, as I do not have much experience with UI, there are many places where this could be improved.
You can go get github.com/kiwih/heyfyi this project.
Once you have acquired it, navigate into the /run folder and go build.
You must specify a $COOKIE_STORE_SALT environment variable, which is something used to encrypt the cookies run by the server. There are two more optional environment variables - $LOG_FILE_NAME, to choose the log file name (defaults to heyfyi.txt), and $HTTP_PORT (defaults to 3000).
As this program uses sqlite, you will need gcc to use cgo. If you are developing on windows, I recommend mingw-64 and not cygwin.
