Go (Golang) and Fiber RESTful API Boilerplate

🚧 WORK IN PROGRESS

• Could be used to provide quick bootstrap functionality for your next go and gofiber app.
• I will update(try) this regularly to add functionality and new features.
• Well this is just one way of doing it, not the official or the best 😅.

Used libraries:

• Gofiber
• Gorm
• jwt-go
• godotenv
• uuid
• Go Mongo Driver
• Go Playground Validator

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Features

• Gofiber Docker Dev Setup with Hot Reload
• User Auth functionality (Signup, Login, Forgot and Reset Password)
• JWT Authentication
• RESTful API
• Swagger REST API documentation
• Gorm (Golang SQL DB ORM) with Postgres implementation and auto migration
• MongoDB using the official mongo driver
• Configs via environmental variables
• Improved Input Validations(could be better)
• Custom Error messages
• Email notification (Welcome email, Reset password email)
• Redis
• Casbin
• WebSocket
• gRPC
• Improve MongoDB data integrity

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Running and Developing locally

1. Create .env at src, i.e.

cp src/.env.example src/.env

2. Download Swag for generating docs

go get -u github.com/swaggo/swag/cmd/swag

3. Run

• NOTE: You have to generate swagger docs before running the app.

# Terminal 1
swag init -g src/api/app.go --output ./src/api/docs # Generates Swagger

# Terminal 2
docker-compose --env-file ./src/.env up        # docker-compose up (Run App With AutoReload)
docker-compose --env-file ./src/.env down      # docker-compose down (Shutdown App)

• API http://localhost:8000/api/v1
• Swagger Doc http://localhost:8000/api/v1/docs

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Packaging For Production

1. Create .env at src, i.e.

cp src/.env.example src/.env

2. Update your .env variables for production

• Point to your prod database
• Update JWT issuer, secret key , blah blah
• Basically just follow good production practice

3. Download Swag for generating docs

go get -u github.com/swaggo/swag/cmd/swag

• Generate Swagger Docs. You have to generate swagger docs before packaging the app.

swag init -g src/api/app.go --output ./src/api/docs # Generates Swagger

4. Build Your Image

• Permission the build script to run.

chmod +x docker-build.sh

• You could set the image port on Dockerfile.prod
• Run the build script. You must provide a version tag as shown below.

./docker-build.sh -v gofiber:1.0.0

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Todo

• Data Migrations ?
• Logger
• Unit tests

maybe?

• SMS notification (2FA ,Reset password code)
• GraphQL
• Deploy on Kubernetes
• Write an article

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Gotcha's

• Building Swago from source code - go build -o swag.exe cmd/swag/main.go

Contribution

Open to Suggestions and Pull Requests