Go Community Linklog
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Alloy - Boilerplate for creating web applications with Go
Alloy is a starter template for creating web applications using Go programming language.
It does not aim to be a web framework but is instead a collection of useful libraries and packages that acts a sensible starting point.
Check it out →
Oliver Coleman
Govalidator - A package of validators and sanitizers for strings, structs and collections. Based on validator.js.
Brian Scott
Creating serverless Slack commands in minutes with Go & Up
Creating serverless Slack commands in minutes with Go & Up
This post walks through the creation of a serverless Slack command written in Golang, and deployed to AWS Lambda in seconds with Up.
Brian Scott
Composition in Go
Go does not support inheritance, however it does support composition https://golangbot.com/inheritance/
Learning - The Go Programming Language Book
For those new to Golang, here is a pretty popular Go Programming Book
Brian Scott
Recipe for using Buffalo and Password Authentication
Mark Bates
Golang Mutexes
Understanding mutexes, solving race condition using mutexes and channels https://golangbot.com/mutex/
Select Statement in Go
https://golangbot.com/select/ Learn how select statement works and also get to know the practical use of select.
Overmind and Hivemind, Procfile-based process managers for local web development
https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/introducing-overmind-and-hivemind
Procfile, introduced by David Dollar's foreman, is a popular format for declaring processes—everyone who ever used Heroku, knows it well. Anyone who didn't, really should learn it—it's an easy way to declare all the stuff that is needed to run your project (web app, additional apps, background processing, tools and daemons) and launch it.
Unfortunately, foreman had some limitations, so there are new kids on the block—tmux support, tons of features, speedy and stable. Check them out!