go-service-ex

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go-service-ex

A microservice written in Go to serve as an example of unit tests, integration tests, interacting with a DB, etc.

Dev Environment Setup

• Install direnv (ex. for Ubuntu: sudo apt install direnv && echo 'val "$(direnv hook bash)"' >> ~/.bashrc)
• Configure direnv to load .env files (ex. mkdir ~/.config/direnv && echo -e '[global]\nload_dotenv = true' > ~/.config/direnv/direnv.toml)
• Copy the .env.example file to .env and load it with direnv allow
• Install postgres (ex. for Ubuntu: sudo apt install postgresql)
• Install GVM and use go 1.23+ (ex. gvm install go1.23 && gvm use go1.23)

DB Setup

./db/local-setup.sh

Formatting, Building, Testing

make

Generating Coverage Report

make coverate-html
open _coverage/coverage.html

Running

# load any necessary environment variables: ex. JWT_SECRET, DB_USER, DB_PASSWORD, DB_SSL_MODE, etc.
make start

Integration Tests

# load any necessary environment variables: ex. JWT_SECRET, etc.
make integration-test

TODO

• add a tx example (setup user and org in 1 tx)
• add prometheus metrics
• extract common things into their own repo (tx manager, httpx client, etc.)
• branch coverage: https://github.com/junhwi/gobco/
• add some example grpc/protobuf code
• flavor the errors with fmt.Errof wrapping