/internal
Private application and library code. This is the code you don't want others importing in their applications or libraries. Note that this layout pattern is enforced by the Go compiler itself. See the Go 1.4 release notes
for more details. Note that you are not limited to the top level internal
directory. You can have more than one internal
directory at any level of your project tree.
You can optionally add a bit of extra structure to your internal packages to separate your shared and non-shared internal code. It's not required (especially for smaller projects), but it's nice to have visual clues showing the intended package use. Your actual application code can go in the /internal/app
directory (e.g., /internal/app/myapp
) and the code shared by those apps in the /internal/pkg
directory (e.g., /internal/pkg/myprivlib
).
https://github.com/golang-standards/project-layout/tree/master/internal
/internal/api
Holds API implementations (/internal/api/handlers
) and general server, router and middleware setup.
/internal/config
Holds configuration of this project (translation of ENV
vars into something useable).
/internal/data
Anything data related (e.g. mappers, DAOs, DTOs, ...), may be especially relevant if you do 3rd party data integrations. Use this package to write reuseable functions for your /internal/api/handlers/*
.
May hold live db fixture data (for app db seed
).
/internal/i18n
Our implementation for i18n/l10n, as available via api.Server.I18n
. Your own localized i18n translation bundles should live within /web/i18n
.
/internal/mailer
Email handling sub-service.
/internal/models
Autogenerated SQLBoiler models. Do not put your own files in here.
These are based on your current database in ../migrations/*.sql
and updated while running make
.
/internal/push
Push notifications sub-service.
/internal/test
Test-Setup related code and general testing utility functions.
Holds test db fixture data (/internal/test/fixtures.go
).
/internal/types
Autogenerated go-swagger types and validations. Do not put your own files in here.
These are based on your Swagger OpenAPI specification in ../api/**/*.yml
and updated while running make
.
/internal/util
Utility functions.