Build Your Own Web Framework in Go

Re:Build Your Own Web Framework in Go by TeeWEE on Friday November 14, 2014 @07:01AM (#8606716)

I kind of disagree with this article. With go its so easy to get started with http that most of the time you dont even need a framework. If you do, most good frameworks use the following function as a common basis:

  func(http.ResponseWriter, *http.Request)

I started with barebones http, then used gorilla, and later started using negrioni.

Any new library with uses this function helps me.

So in the end: you dont need a framework, but libraries are nice.

Note: My api is a simple json based rest service.

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Re:Build Your Own Web Framework in Go by melling on Friday November 14, 2014 @09:10AM (#8607155)

I created a small starter Go Web Server from a website that I'm building:

GitHub: https://github.com/melling/GoWebServer

I'm not sure that I like embedding html in fmt.Print() methods, along with templates. A lot of my page handlers look something like this:

https://github.com/melling/GoWebServer/blob/master/src/webse...

My site is about 4000-5000 lines of Go, with a bit of "repeating myself". I'd like to hear from devs who've built larger sites.

Btw, here's my site:

http://thespanishsite.com

And the usually "hidden" admin pages where I've done most of my work:

http://thespanishsite.com/admin/summary?language=chinese&pic...

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Re:Build Your Own Web Framework in Go by blueblank on Friday November 14, 2014 @09:38AM (#8607293)

Just looking at your fmt.Print link, you could be wrapping everything requiring a template in functions handling the html/template stuff, i.e. have code specifically interfacing templating for you that you can just pass a command "render this template". I had a lot of problems with working through templating and ended up with my own wrappers around html/template in Djinn(https://github.com/thrisp/djinn).

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Re:Build Your Own Web Framework in Go by lloeki on Friday November 14, 2014 @07:10AM (#8606739)

This dotGo talk[0] about dependencies is spot on. Composition makes you reap all the benefits.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yi5A3cK1LNA&list=PLMW8Xq7bXr...

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Re:Build Your Own Web Framework in Go by nmerouze on Friday November 14, 2014 @09:28AM (#8607245)

That's what this series of articles is doing. It starts with http.Handler and assemble libraries with minimal glue code to make things work without a lot of overhead.

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Re:Build Your Own Web Framework in Go by hanief on Friday November 14, 2014 @07:40AM (#8606843)

I agree. Those learning path is best for a deep understanding of how go works in the inside.

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Re:Build Your Own Web Framework in Go by nkozyra on Friday November 14, 2014 @09:06AM (#8607131)

I think most people that are using core net/http package utilities instead of a framework don't fall under the "deep understanding" category because of the ease and simplicity of said package.

Building a framework is useful for doing that, because you have to understand the routing mechanisms, the way statuses and headers are set within the net/http package, etc.

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