james-maloney/demo

Basic example API using Gin and some good resources to learn Go

Example JSON API using Go and Gin

A simple app that demonstrates the basics of Gin

Setup

• Create directory $GOPATH/github.com/james-maloney
• cd to the $GOPATH/github.com/james-maloney
• Clone demo repo git clone https://github.com/james-maloney/demo
• cd to $GOPATH/github.com/james-maloney/demo
• install and run go build && ./demo
• visit localhost:8000

All Source code is in main.go in the demo directory

Go Resources

• Visual Studio Code - A good open source editor from Microsoft that has a good plugin for Go
• Go Tour
• Go By Example
• Effective Go
• Godoc - Go has tooling to create documentation using comments
• List of Go articles
• Goa - Alternative choice to Gin. Looks promising, could be a good alternative.