/go-pastebin

Primary LanguageGo

Snippetbox

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.