Minimal Go template for building fast, simple and mantainable web services and backend applications.

• Very minimal and zero overhead
• Production ready
• Simple and conventional structure, no black magic
• Separation of business logic and API logic
• Fully compatible and based on standard net/http
• Strict linting with golangci-lint
• Custom HTTP error handling and error mapping (separate service errors from API errors)
• Request payload validation
• Structured logging with zerolog
• Full AWS Lambda support (see serverless branch)

All utilities are implemented in the httpx and util package.

This repo contains a more real world example of a CRUD API with:

• sqlite3 storage
• Embedded sql migrations
• Apply migrations on startup with goose

• chi: HTTP router (std net/http compatible)
• chi/middleware: default middlewares and utils
• validator/v10: request body struct validation
• zerolog: structured logging

You can start by reading the small wiki with examples.

To get started, simply run:

make

This will build the project, you just need Go installed and nothing else.

To run the server:

./bin/api/main

This will create a sqlite3 file in the root of the project, run migrations and start the server on port 3000.