snippetapp

Building a Golang webserver to store / retrieve text snippets.

Motivation

Learning about backend development concepts while familiarizing with Golang:

• Routing and http handlers
• Middleware for logging, auth, etc.
• Interacting with Postgres
• HTML Templating
• Processing and validating forms
• Sessions with cookies
• Security (server headers, TLS, CSRF prevention, password storage with bcrypt)
• User authorization and authentication
• Golang Request Context to pass data to downstream handlers
• Flash messages
• Golang embedded files using embed.FS
• Testing http handlers
• Mocking data models for testing
• Integrating testing with test database

Using

1. mkdir tls
2. cd tls
3. Using crypto/tls generate_cert.go tool, run go run /path/to/generate_cert.go --rsa-bites=2048 --host=localhost
4. Install postgres and run sql/snippets.sql setup script to create necessary tables and user
5. go run ./cmd/web