An extremely tiny RESTful-ish backend for landing pages.
| method | URI | (form) data |
|---|---|---|
| POST | /subscribe |
email, host, when
| key | description | sample |
|---|---|---|
| email address provided by client | me@mailbox.com | |
| host | IP address of the client | 192.168.1.1 |
| when | date/time the email was submitted | 1970-01-01 00:00:00.000000000 -0600 CST |
Launching a couple of web-based projects, I needed a simple backend to collect email addresses from landing pages.
Despite having never written in Go before, I couldn't ignore the fact that it was the perfect language for this. A server capable of serving your static frontend, along with the single Lander binary, is all you need.
I wanted my landing page instances to be as lightweight possible so I decided against any kind of storage backend. For data processing, you can easily import the CSV to the DBMS of your choice once you launch your project.
There is no rate limiting implementation included. If you are using Nginx, my suggestion would be to look at ngx_http_limit_req_module.
This is my first time writing something in Go. The code isn't horrendous, but it definitely isn't great.
MIT; go hog-wild. :)