mini

README

"Mini" web application

A small web application used for POC and code review.

Development

make create-db  # first time only

# optional for dev, if you want email to work
export SENDGRID_API_KEY="Your-key-here" 

make dev

Then open your browser to http://localhost:4000

Prerequisites

• Install Make ( apt install make)
• Install go ( https://golang.org/doc/install )
• postgres ( https://www.postgresql.org/download/linux/debian )
• gin $ go get github.com/codegangsta/gin
• ci-lint go get -u github.com/golangci/golangci-lint/cmd/golangci-lint

Todo

• How to handle configs? yaml,env,build flags,...,???
  • Eventually the app will need ~10 config vars
    • 5 for DB connection
    • 1 for send gride
    • 4 for the secure cookie inputs
    • 1 for schema://domain_name:port
• How to handle logging?
  • logrus
  • chi mux logging middleware
• Deploying?
  • Do we bundle templates into the binary?
  • deploy to /opt or /usr/local/{app} ?
  • separate config file in /etc ? or shove all ENV vars into .service