go-template

Toolbox and building blocks for new Go projects, to get started quickly and right-footed!

• Makefile with lint, test, build, fmt and more
• Linting with gofmt, gofumpt, go vet, staticcheck and golangci-lint
• Logging setup using the slog logger (with debug and json logging options)
• GitHub Workflows for linting and testing, as well as releasing and publishing Docker images
• Entry files for CLI and HTTP server
• Webserver with
  • Graceful shutdown, implementing livez, readyz and draining API handlers
  • Prometheus metrics
  • Using https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/go-chi/chi/v5 for routing
  • Urfave for cli args
• https://github.com/uber-go/nilaway
• Postgres database with migrations
• See also:
  • Public project setup: https://github.com/flashbots/flashbots-repository-template
  • Repository for common Go utilities: https://github.com/flashbots/go-utils

Pick and choose whatever is useful to you! Don't feel the need to use everything, or even to follow this structure.

For advanced Golang knowledge, tips & tricks, see also https://goperf.dev

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Getting started

Build CLI

make build-cli

Build HTTP server

make build-httpserver

Install dev dependencies

go install mvdan.cc/[email protected]
go install honnef.co/go/tools/cmd/[email protected]
go install github.com/golangci/golangci-lint/cmd/[email protected]
go install go.uber.org/nilaway/cmd/[email protected]
go install github.com/daixiang0/[email protected]

Lint, test, format

make lint
make test
make fmt

Database tests (using a live Postgres instance)

Database tests will be run if the RUN_DB_TESTS environment variable is set to 1.

# start the database
docker run -d --name postgres-test -p 5432:5432 -e POSTGRES_USER=postgres -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=postgres -e POSTGRES_DB=postgres postgres

# run the tests
RUN_DB_TESTS=1 make test

# stop the database
docker rm -f postgres-test