GoLang Blog Backend

Setup

If new to Golang, follow tutorial to setup and run GO provided on main doc page. It's documentation is fine

Once installed, add export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin in the end of ~/.profile and reboot.

For a new project

mkdir projectName
cd projectName
go mod init projectName

SQLite

sudo apt install sqlite3

Create database

sqlite3 blogtest.db < db_entrypoint.sql

MySQL

Install MySQL on system (Docker works fine too)

sudo apt install mysql-server -y
sudo systemctl enable mysql.service

mysql -u root -p < db_entrypoint.sql

JWT

Generate sign key for jwt

openssl rand -hex 32

New dependencies

To use dependencies, as for example google uuid must update go.mod by using following command

go get -u github.com/google/uuid
go get -u github.com/joho/godotenv
go get -u golang.org/x/crypto
go get -u github.com/go-sql-driver/mysql
go get -u github.com/golang-jwt/jwt/v5