saferwall Web APIs

Preface

This repository powers the web service API used in https://saferwall.com.

Vendoring

These packages are used in the project:

• Language: Golang 1.21+
• Routing: Echo
• Configuration: viper
• Logging: zap
• Message queuing: nsq
• Authentication jwt
• Database: gocb
• Password Hashing: bcrypt
• Data Validation: validator
• i18n Translator: universal-translator

Folder Structure

This project follows the Standard Go Project Layout

• build - contains packaging and Continuous Integration files.
• cmd - contains the main function.
• configs - contains configuration file templates or default configs.
• docs - contains design and user documents.
• db - contains database sql-like (n1ql) queries.
• internal - contains private project specific code.
• pkg - contains generic packages without project specific dependencies - these can be safely moved to other projects without internal dependencies.

Getting started

• Install docker.
• git clone https://github.com/saferwall/webapis.git.
• Create a private.env in the root directory:

  # Used by docker-compose NSQ service when debugging a service locally and
  # using all the other services from docker-compose.
  EXTERNAL_IP=<your-host-ip>

• Make sure make is installed and run make init.

References

• Standard Package Layout
• How Do You Structure Your Go Apps? by Kat Zień
• https://www.calhoun.io/moving-towards-domain-driven-design-in-go/
• Domain Driven Design in Golang - Strategic Design
• Idiometic Go Web Application Structure
• A clean architecture for Web Application in Go lang
• https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/CodeReviewComments
• https://golang.org/doc/effective_go
• https://peter.bourgon.org/go-best-practices-2016/
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dp1cc6-QKY0