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I use the standard library. My entire business runs on it, html/css all through the standard library (templates package). I use embed to embed all assets in th

by elt 4y ago

I use the standard library. My entire business runs on it, html/css all through the standard library (templates package). I use embed to embed all assets in the binary itself. "go build" and then "scp" the binary to the production server and "systemctl restart appserver"

JodieBenitez 4y ago
> templates package How do you like the template package ? Can you compare it to Jinja/Twig ?
- elt 4y ago
  I have never used Jinja/Twig, but I have used handlebars, ERB, JSX and other similar templating systems. Overall, I find Go's template system to be a bit clunky but it certainly gets the job done. The template system is fairly minimal so it feels mostly like working with HTML, but it gives you a few tools to use.. mainly passing data down the template/sub-templates and the ability to define template functions/helpers. Minimal... but it's all you really need. I converted my business from Rails 5 to Go about a year ago and the ERB was fairly straight forward to convert to Go's template system.. it felt like I was mostly converting <% .. %> to {{ .. }} and changing <%= render ... %> to {{ template ... }}
  - JodieBenitez 4y ago
    Thanks, I guess I should try the standard lib before anything else then.
DLA 4y ago
Love that you do this. I have a few enterprise projects that do exactly the same thing (minus the embed in one, just scp and untar). Can’t beat the simplicity. Regarding the original question we use fiber.io for a few systems and have loved it’s capabilities and performance.
bgdkbtv 4y ago
What about scheduled jobs (cron), email notifications, database etc?
- elt 4y ago
  My server's binary is more than a server, it can execute one off tasks, etc. For example I can execute the server binary with special arguments, ex "server --task admin-reports" in a cron job. For the database I use Postgresql with the standard library's database/sql package (using lib/pq as the driver). For scheduled emails and tasks, I store them in Postgres and I have a task that is run through my server binary every few hours (ex: "server --task scheduled-tasks").

by elt 4y ago

JodieBenitez 4y ago

> templates package How do you like the template package ? Can you compare it to Jinja/Twig ?

elt 4y ago
I have never used Jinja/Twig, but I have used handlebars, ERB, JSX and other similar templating systems. Overall, I find Go's template system to be a bit clunky but it certainly gets the job done. The template system is fairly minimal so it feels mostly like working with HTML, but it gives you a few tools to use.. mainly passing data down the template/sub-templates and the ability to define template functions/helpers. Minimal... but it's all you really need. I converted my business from Rails 5 to Go about a year ago and the ERB was fairly straight forward to convert to Go's template system.. it felt like I was mostly converting <% .. %> to {{ .. }} and changing <%= render ... %> to {{ template ... }}
- JodieBenitez 4y ago
  Thanks, I guess I should try the standard lib before anything else then.

DLA 4y ago

Love that you do this. I have a few enterprise projects that do exactly the same thing (minus the embed in one, just scp and untar). Can’t beat the simplicity. Regarding the original question we use fiber.io for a few systems and have loved it’s capabilities and performance.

bgdkbtv 4y ago

What about scheduled jobs (cron), email notifications, database etc?

elt 4y ago
My server's binary is more than a server, it can execute one off tasks, etc. For example I can execute the server binary with special arguments, ex "server --task admin-reports" in a cron job. For the database I use Postgresql with the standard library's database/sql package (using lib/pq as the driver). For scheduled emails and tasks, I store them in Postgres and I have a task that is run through my server binary every few hours (ex: "server --task scheduled-tasks").