dokshor/microservices-go

Golang Microservices Boilerplate

Golang Microservices Boilerplate

Example structure to start a microservices project with golang. Using a MySQL database.

Manual Installation

If you would still prefer to do the installation manually, follow these steps:

Clone the repo:

git clone https://github.com/gbrayhan/microservices-go

If you need, configure the environment variables in file config.json, if you use docker-compose leave the variables set in the file config.json.example

cp config.json.example config.json

Table of Contents

• Features
• Commands
• Environment Variables
• Project Structure
• API Documentation
• Error Handling
• Validation
• Linting

Features

• Golang v1.14: Stable version of go
• Framework: A stable version of gin-go
• SQL database: MariaDB using internal sql package of go sql
• Testing: unit and integration tests using package of go testing
• API documentation: with swaggo a go implementation of swagger
• Dependency management: with go modules
• Environment variables: using viper
• Docker support
• Code quality: with CodeFactor
• Linting: with ESLint

Commands

Build and run image of docker

docker-compose up  --build  -d

Swagger Implementation

swag init -g routes/ApplicationV1.go

Unit test command

# run recursive test
go test  ./test/unitgo/...
# clean go test results in cache
go clean -testcache

Lint inspection of go

golangci-lint run ./...