Snippetbox

This application was developed by following the Creating a web application in Go.

It's a full-stack Go web application called Snippetbox that lets people paste and share snippets of text — a bit like GitHub's Gists or Pastebin.

Features

• Save and view snippets.
• Middleware.
• RESTful routing.
• SSL/TLS web server using HTTP 2.0.
• User authentication. User can signup and login.
• Leveled logging.
• Data persistence using MySQL database.
• Dynamic HTML using Go templates
• Session management
• Web security

Development

Software requirements:

• This project supports Go modules. Go 1.13+ is required.
• MySQL
• make

To start the local web server with HTTPS on port 4000:

$ git clone https://github.com/icoder-new/snippetbox
$ cd snippetbox

# Generate TLS key and cert
$ make cert

$ make dev

To run the tests, run make test.
For more info, run go run .\cmd\web -help

Things I Learned

• Go for web development using just the standard library.
• How to start small and iteratively improve the codebase by refactoring.
• How to structure a project and create testable packages.
• How to create maintainable web applications.
• Basic web security.
• How HTTPS works.