While I'm still a little unsteady about code generation, I can't deny that this framework was able to accomplish quite a bit in just a few minutes. I love that they've integrated protobuf into their workflow so nicely.
This small POC was accomplished by following a tutorial from the main Ent website.
While it is just a small POC, and copied directly from a website, I feel like this small bit of code speaks volumes about the future of back end, and even the front-end.
With event-driven architecture being more tangible than ever before, I can absolutely see the value in using an ORM to bootstrap a protofile, create your routes, and move on to the next service!
Check out the tutorial here:
https://entgo.io/blog/2021/03/18/generating-a-grpc-server-with-ent/
I will definitely be playing with this a lot more in the future.
The schema is in ./ent/schema/user.go if you'd like to see the model. I haven't tested with any other dialects than MySQL.
To run the app, there are two commands:
go run ./cmd/server/go run ./cmd/client/
Once the server is started, it should automatically migrade the users table for you. The client will automatically make a Create request, retrieve the results, and send them back to stdout.
There is a small unit test available as well: ./pb_test.go