Build Web App with Go for Beginners Part I

#go #webapp

Go was designed at Google in 2007 to improve programming productivity in an era of multicore, networked machines and large code bases.The designers wanted to address criticism of other languages in use at Google, but keep their useful characteristics.

During past couple of days I have been learning Golang and I noticed some of the challenges I faced was the lack of constraints or standards, choosing external packages and much more😭. I would like to share some findings that have worked for me and also walk you through the steps by building a simple todo app.

Prerequisites

A Golang compiler installed on your Machine
An IDE or text editor
Basic understanding of Go
Basic understanding of HTML and CSS
Basic understanding of SQL (Only required to create Database 😉)

Project Layout

We would start by creating a module for our project so as to better track our packages in a file called go.mod which would makes it easier for distribution or deployment. it's more like package.json or composer.json.

 go mod init github.com/iamhabbeboy/todoapp

Next, we need to create the following folders.

You don't have to follow this structure.😊

todoapp
├──models
|   └── Todo.go
├── controllers  
|    └── TodoController.go
├── database
|     └── connect.go
├── views  
|     └── index.html
|     └── create.html
|── main.go
|── .env