How To Structure Your Golang (API) Projects!?

[@anthonygg_]

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[@TheRealisticNihilist]

I love the way this guy says "structure".

[@krislui852]

just learnt go recently and trying to build my first project on it. tried different ways to structure my project but found them being quite messy. great video, helps a lot.

[@linhnguyen05111999]

omg amazing! I really needed this. Great example, especially the storage interface.

[@robinludan3041]

- project name - api - server.go (handles http handler methods, routes, etc) - server_test.go - handler.go (if you got many handlers filling up server.go) - storage - storage.go (handles store interface) - sqlite.go etc - types - user.go etc - util (optional) - util.go (helper functions)

[@pss_crs]

I'm regretting notvdiscovered this channel early thanks.

[@mwnkt]

loving the consistency in uploads, loving the channel so far

[@joshb7001]

You are pumping out golden eggs non stop. Thank you

[@Shatterhand16]

Watched your "Important Tips On How To Write Idiomatic Code In Golang" just before watching this, and I believe that the interface declared in 8:02 should be Storer instead of Storage, same for module name. Additionally maybe it would be worth to enable screencast mode in vscode with smaller font and offset? I think it'd be great to learn some of the shortcuts that allow you to be that fast just by watching. By the way loving the content, keep it up!

[@anthonygg_]

Yeah storer would maybe more idiomatic. You are right.

[@jean-naymar602]

This is a common misconception but the "effective go" doc does NOT say that every interface should end in -er. Instead, it says that IF an interface defines only 1 method, then this interface should be named by appending -er to the method's name : "By convention, one-method interfaces are named by the method name plus an -er suffix" That's it. (Admittedly, one method interfaces should be what you aim for anyway but still, you shouldn't bother naming multi-method interfaces with -er...)

[@Shatterhand16]

@@jean-naymar602 That's cool to know, thanks for detailed explanation!

[@scarthebadguy]

Hey mate these are great videos. I love how verbose you are as you type. I learn more from you talking than I have from any udemy course

[@jondoe79]

Super clean, it's grouped by feature.

[@terriprifti5069]

This is a gem 💎

[@frozenn00b]

Breaking all the Golang project structure conventions for "reasons". Convention is to use cmd, internal, pkg, test for sorting your packages... arbitrary folder structures introduce additional hurdles for newcomers to the project to figure out what you're doing.

[@Incolent]

Just stumbled upon your channel. Amazing content for students! Keep it coming!

[@anthonygg_]

Welcome aboard!

[@andreimikhalkevich5633]

go ahead Anthony, very helpful skills

[@Leon-cj8hd]

Your coding speed is insane, even while talking. Viewed some videos, I think the content is great, thanks a lot :)

[@cothromachd]

anthony the sigma

[@davidhtorres]

These videos are awesome! Thank you! Very clear!

[@blazinglyfaster9935]

Perfect timing 🚀🚀🚀

[@ThePandaGuitar]

I don't know Go and that flag string is awesome. I can see why making CLIs in Go is sweet.

[@mitchymagic]

As someone coming from Django, Go project structure has been a real headache. One question for you AGG, if you were building a web app would you change your api directory to web ?

[@tintin537]

Thank you. as always superb.

[@anonymous-sk9li]

Sir can you make a tutorial on function being define inside a interface why it is necessary and how to use it and also on method receiver where and where not to use it . Your content is always quality worth it will be great help for noob developers like me

[@Noudapi]

Hey Anthony thank you for your video. I just don't understand how you implement the storage interface. Do you add all the functions to implement for all entities of your database?

[@JanPhilippHeinrich]

Hey Anthony, basically this is a good video but could you explain why you put the interface for store right there where it is implemented? I learned that we use duck typing / structural typing which means we would put the interface were it is used.

[@anthonygg_]

In have a video explaining interfaces and why you should use them

[@jed271]

What are your thoughts on hexagonal architecture?

[@anthonygg_]

Thats a scam

[@jed271]

@@anthonygg_ can you elaborate more? I really like your contents

[@anthonygg_]

@@jed271 I think that people are inventing new ways of doing things because they have nothing better to do. My advice is to just solve the problem and do what works for you. The folder structure I showed you worked very well for me and I think it's a structure that is also highly adopted by a lot of big open-source projects. Don't make it too complex.

[@andrewcathcart]

Random, but can you export your vscode setup? Theme looks v clean

[@anthonygg_]

github.com/anthdm/vscode-config

[@jorisjansen2892]

🚀🚀

[@maximilianlang7175]

If you have more than one route, maybe something like /users and /books. Would you implement one store for all or would you have one store for all your types?

[@anthonygg_]

Depends. You could make more interfaces for each domain if you want. Otherwise your storage interface will be a raidboss

[@maximilianlang7175]

@@anthonygg_ Thanks! So you would have a user and a book interface and then several implementations for mongo oder mysql

[@anthonygg_]

@@maximilianlang7175 Yes. UserStorage, bookStorage and so on.

[@maximilianlang7175]

@@anthonygg_ and do you plan to make a video about mongo?

[@anthonygg_]

@@maximilianlang7175 good idea, will note that.

[@rafaelcordoba13]

How would you organize all the other go files based on application features? For a game server for example, you have a shop, daily quests, daily login, clans, events, wallet, etc. How do you see that scaling?

[@anthonygg_]

Just separate handlers, data, and business logic

[@bmitch3020]

"package util" oh no, Oh no no no no no.

[@MaheshKumar-tc3gn]

Do you keep everything in server package. Server package will handle user requests, in future it will handle all the separate modules? I think it is bad idea and bad structure

[@soufta5872]

Hi there. Is golang a good thing for sysadmin and autmation projects ? I don't want to use python especially when it comes to third party librairies that are hard to install on production ! Thanks

[@kamalkamals]

so the storage it s look like session of connection to mongodb, but is that a best practice to inject it as params in every function of the services ?? why no use it like a global variable !

[@anthonygg_]

Yup. Im using that approach right now.

[@kamalkamals]

@@anthonygg_ greate i use with graphql and works good, are u test before upload file with graphql ?? sorry if that is not the topic of this video

[@JohnDoe-ji1zv]

Anthony thanks for the video! Would like to get your opinion on di frameworks like Uber fx. Do you use dependency injection frameworks in your applications ?

[@pavelastraukh9905]

Is there a reason why store is passed by value and not by reference?

[@niconc.gr.youtube]

Hello Anthony, A while ago, I just watch the "How To Build And Structure A JSON API Project In Golang!?" video, in which you're following a sightly different approach concerning the folders/packages structure (which I love very much BTW). "Everything on root" you're saying, "unless it's really needed". I'd like to ask you why? Does this happen because the videos are from different time? Thank you.

[@anthonygg_]

My personal opinion is to keep things very simple and with as less folders possible. Because soon or later you will end up with circular dependencies. But I know that this is very hard for a lot of people to switch to due to the fact that the meta is to folderize like a mad men. So, I try to switch things up and give people multiple approaches on "how they could structure Golang applications".

[@niconc.gr.youtube]

@@anthonygg_ Got it! I'm just starting and I'm friend of the minimalistic approach. You've right though.

[@2gbeh]

🇳🇬 Is Go a high level language ? This syntax looks sick (in a bad way).

[@insert-name1500]

What's the name of this VS Code theme?

[@anthonygg_]

Gruvbox

[@pedrohenriquebufulindealme5763]

Do you have any video that extends on the Storage pattern you showed?

[@anthonygg_]

Hmm. Not sure. I use it in a lot of streams and projects

[@VeereshPatel15]

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[@gustavogoncalves2101]

At interface storage can we make a gerenic interface with the default CRUD methods to work with N models?

[@Laflamablanca969]

Yes. Use generics for this.

[@rezaneyrami7944]

Hello . I wish you would speak more slowly. I can hardly communicate with your language. If possible, speak more slowly... Thank you

[@samess_]

Please create a cli app that generates the template of your structured project...🥲

[@Gertozzz]

When are you going to code a Shalien server? Request.get.go

[@anthonygg_]

Thats a BIG task