Rocket launching a Go project

Looking for a Golang rocket launch project? Check out these handpicked components. Each component is perfectly designed for its job.

1. Router - http://www.gorillatoolkit.org/pkg/mux
2. Middleware - https://github.com/urfave/negroni (alt: http://www.gorillatoolkit.org/pkg/handlers)
3. Logging - https://github.com/sirupsen/logrus
4. Database ORM - https://github.com/jinzhu/gorm
5. Sessions - http://www.gorillatoolkit.org/pkg/Sessions
6. Schema bindings - http://www.gorillatoolkit.org/pkg/Schema
7. Configuration - https://github.com/BurntSushi/toml

When you glue these components into one project you will get a rocket powered Go project. Oh boy, this project is already for deployment. And all your customers would be happy.

In your root folder create a main.go file that looks like the following:

package main

import (
    "log"
    "net/http"
    "time"

    "github.com/gorilla/mux"
    "github.com/urfave/negroni"
)

func main() {
    // Instantiate new mux router
    r := mux.NewRouter()
    // Instantiate middleware provider
    n := negroni.Classic()
    n.UseHandler(r)
    // Register application routes
        r.HandleFunc("/", new(handlers.HomeHandler).Index)

    // Prepare server to spin up
    s := &http.Server{
        Addr: "127.0.0.1:8000",
        // link middleware with router
        Handler: n,
        // default time outs
        WriteTimeout: 15 * time.Second,
        ReadTimeout:  15 * time.Second,
    }

    // Listen and serve baby
    log.Fatal(s.ListenAndServe())
}

In the above file I assume you have a folder called handlers/http/. In this folder at least a HomeHandler is present with the following content:

package handlers

import (
    "fmt"
    "net/http"
)

// HomeHandler represents basic routes
type HomeHandler struct{}

// Index will show the homepage
func (h HomeHandler) Index(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
    fmt.Fprint(w, "Hi there, I am ready!")
}

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