[WIP] Go API Template

In this repository you will find a template for creating a Go backend project. It includes the entrypoint of the application, testing, linter and docker already configured.

📄 Features

• Go as programming language
• Gin as web framework
• Testify. A toolkit with common assertions and mocks that plays nicely with the standard library
  • With Mockery for generating mocks
  • With httptest native package for testing HTTP handlers
• Golangci-lint as linter and formatter
• Docker as containerization tool
• Github Actions for CI (Continuous Integration)
• Taskfile for task automation

🚀 Getting Started

# Install dependencies
task deps

# Run the application
task run

# Build the application
task build

# Run the application with the binary
task start

🐳 Docker

# Build the image
docker build -t <owner>/go-api-template:<tag> .

# Run the container
docker run --rm -p 8080:8080 <owner>/go-api-template:<tag>

🧪 Testing

# Run tests
task test

💅 Linting

# Run linter (if you have golangci-lint installed)
task lint

# Run linter (with docker)
task lint:docker