▲ 8 ▼ Alloy - Boilerplate for building web applications with Go

growthmetrics.io posted by Ollie 2652 days ago

I've been working on my first non-trivial project using Golang. I've extracted this starter template from that project. This does not aim to be a web framework but is instead a collection of useful libraries and packages that you can use as a base to build on top of.

A quick rundown of the major packages used -

go-chi/chi (routing)
lib/pq, jmoiron/sqlx, markbates/pop/nulls, pressly/goose (database)
gorilla/sessions, gorilla/csrf, gorilla/securecookies (login/signup)
markbates/refresh (recompile app on file change)
microcosm-cc/bluemonday (display HTML)
pressly/douceur, gomail (sending emails)
pkg/errors, satori/go.uuid, spf13/cobra

Let me know what you guys think.

▲ kenny 2651 days ago ▼

Interesting approach, it sounds very like the approach used to generate resources for this website. I wouldn't shy away from calling it a framework, or from rewriting some libraries yourself. The downside with an agglomeration of libs/packages is that they gradually drift out of sync with each other and require vigilant updates, the upside is of course that you don't have to maintain them. There is some value I think in having examples of how to put all this together, and being able to quickly add new resources to your sites with templates.

I would avoid the npm dependency and other libs like jquery - no need for that really. Also consider generating new resources using templates with something similar to the rails command - this is something I think rails got right.

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▲ tomf 2651 days ago ▼

Seems to be a lot of people inventing the same thing for Go, because if you're not writing simple services you need all these tools to build a website - there is definitely a gap for a web framework here.

It's a shame places like reddit have come to a consensus that framework is a dirty word.

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