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.