Golang App Template

An app template to write application in go. It can be rest api, gRPC or whatever.

Prerequisite

• VSCode
• Go (1.22.0 or later)
• make

Environment setup

Create a .env file. See .env-example for reference.

Install goose for database migration.

go install github.com/pressly/goose/v3/cmd/goose@latest

Run go run ./cmd/api to start the api server.

The server can be accessed in this url: http://localhost:3000

Migration

All the migration files are stored in internal/migrations directory.

Create a new migration file.

make mg-new name=user_table

Apply all available migrations

make mg-up

Revert single migration from current version

make mg-down

To check migration status.

make mg-status

Note: For local database we might need to remove tls=skip-verify from the connection string