gin-gonic-spike
A spike to evaluate gin-gonic frame work to do rest API in go
Technology usage
- Uses GORM for handling database as best practice https://github.com/jinzhu/gorm
- Uses jwt middleware for authentication https://github.com/appleboy/gin-jwt
- Uses air for hot reloading https://github.com/cosmtrek/air
- Uses gin-swagger for docs https://github.com/swaggo/gin-swagger
- Uses validator for validation https://github.com/go-playground/validator
- Uses casbin for role based security https://github.com/gin-contrib/authz
Generate Docs
to generate docs
with the go utility swag https://github.com/swaggo/swag
swag init this places the static docs in the docs directory which is served on the /docs/index.html
TODO
- automation testing https://github.com/gin-gonic/gin#testing
Considerations
- experimenting with hydra https://github.com/ory/hydra and https://github.com/janekolszak/gin-hydra for better oauth security
- experimenting with graphql https://github.com/99designs/gqlgen or https://github.com/graph-gophers/graphql-go