Go REST Service Starter/Boilerplate

Easily extendible REST API Service boilerplate aiming to follow idiomatic go and best practice.

Any feedback and pull requests are welcome and highly appreciated. Feel free to open issues just for comments and discussions.

Features

The following feature set is a minimal selection of typical Web API requirements:

Configuration using viper
CLI features using cobra
Structured logging with zap
Routing with Gin and middleware
Request data validation using Go Validator
Redis support using Go redis
Enables request stats using Gin stats on endpoint /request/stats
Enables metrics and observability via Go metrics and Go gin Prometheus on endpoint /metrics
Postgres enabled using Go pg
Http client support using Go resty
Makefile setup

TODO

Add email support
Add Oauth support

Start Application

Clone this repository
Rename _config.yaml to config.yaml
Run the application to see available commands: make run
Run the application with command serve: make server

Prerequisite

Go installed
To have psql running and test db created