go-bookstore

Golang bookstore that uses MySQL

This example is taken from Learn Go Programming by Building 11 projects.

There's a similar example that uses SQLite from Pluralsight.

Overview

• This introduces the gorm package
• The project structure is Model-View-Controller for the most part, minus the View
• The database part is very bare bones as I don't care much for that here, I just want to familiarize myself with golang ways of doing things

Notes

• This project structure is less confusing than the other projects in the series
• Seems like there are other dialects for the Gorm package, if MySQL is not your first choice
• Golang has absolute paths. Note the paths of the controllers in particular
• Imports are fun due to the absolute paths. At least goimports provides a standard
• I left the exe files out of the repo
• I didn't add the database username or password as this is just a sample project, and I don't want to share sensitive information in repos. There are some recommended best practices to clean configuration management in Golang