Provides essentials that most web applications need - MVC pattern and user authorisation that can be easily extended.

It consists of 3 core components:

• Goji - A web microframework for Golang - http://goji.io/
• Gorilla web toolkit sessions - cookie (and filesystem) sessions - http://www.gorillatoolkit.org/pkg/sessions
• pq - Postgres driver for the Go language - https://github.com/lib/pq
• sqlx - Relational database access interface - https://github.com/jmoiron/sqlx

• Replaced MongoDB with Postgresql
• Removed Application.Route reflection dependencies
• Removed Application.Controller type, thereby simplified controllers package
• Asset packaging with go.rice
• Separate settings for development, testing & production environments (see config/config.json.example)
• Built-in migration command based on https://github.com/rubenv/sql-migrate

rice embed-go && go build -o server creates server binary with packed in assets (including migrations & template files). For more options on using rice tool see https://github.com/GeertJohan/go.rice

Default Project requires Go, Postgresql and few other tools installed.

Instructions below have been tested on Ubuntu 14.04.

If you don't have Go installed, follow installation instructions described here: http://golang.org/doc/install

Then install remaining dependecies:

sudo apt-get install git mercurial subversion bzr

Postgresql:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install postgresql postgresql-contrib

No go to your GOPATH location and run:

go get github.com/denisbakhtin/defaultproject

And then:

go install github.com/denisbakhtin/defaultproject

In your GOPATH directory you can create config.json file:

{
	"secret": "secret",
	"public_path": "./src/github.com/denisbakhtin/defaultproject/public",
	"template_path": "./src/github.com/denisbakhtin/defaultproject/views",	
	"database": {
		"host": "192.168.0.111",
		"name": "defaultproject_dev",
    "user": "postgresql_user",
    "password": "postgresql_password@"
	}
}

Finally, you can run:

./bin/defaultproject

That should output something like:

2014/06/19 15:31:15.386961 Starting Goji on [::]:8000

And it means you can now direct your browser to localhost:8000

/controllers

All your controllers that serve defined routes.

/helpers

Helper functions.

/models

You database models.

/public

It has all your static files mapped to /assets/* path except robots.txt and favicon.ico that map to /.

/system

Core functions and structs.

/views

Your views using standard Go template system.

server.go

This file starts your web application and also contains routes definition.

I assume you have followed installation instructions and you have defaultproject installed in your GOPATH location.

Let's say I want to create Amazing Website. I create new GitHub repository https://github.com/denisbakhtin/amazingwebsite (of course replace that with your own repository).

Now I have to prepare defaultproject. First thing is that I have to delete its .git directory.

I issue:

rm -rf src/github.com/denisbakhtin/defaultproject/.git

Then I want to replace all references from github.com/denisbakhtin/defaultproject to github.com/denisbakhtin/amazingwebsite:

grep -rl 'github.com/denisbakhtin/defaultproject' ./ | xargs sed -i 's/github.com\/denisbakhtin\/defaultproject/github.com\/denisbakhtin\/amazingwebsite/g'

Now I have to move all defaultproject files to the new location:

mv src/github.com/denisbakhtin/defaultproject/ src/github.com/denisbakhtin/amazingwebsite

And push it to my new repository at GitHub:

cd src/github.com/denisbakhtin/amazingwebsite
git init
git add --all .
git commit -m "Amazing Website First Commit"
git remote add origin https://github.com/denisbakhtin/amazingwebsite.git
git push -u origin master

You can now go back to your GOPATH and check if everything is ok:

go install github.com/denisbakhtin/amazingwebsite

And that's it.

For Continuous Development I recommend using Fresh - https://github.com/pilu/fresh

You can install Fresh by issuing:

go get github.com/pilu/fresh

Then create a config file runner.conf in your GOPATH:

root:              ./src/github.com/denisbakhtin/amazingwebsite
tmp_path:          ./tmp
build_name:        runner-build
build_log:         runner-build-errors.log
valid_ext:         .go, .tpl, .tmpl, .html
build_delay:       600
colors:            1
log_color_main:    cyan
log_color_build:   yellow
log_color_runner:  green
log_color_watcher: magenta
log_color_app:

Note: Remember to replace ./src/github.com/elcct/amazingwebsite with your own location

Now if you run:

./bin/fresh -c runner.conf

Project should automatically rebuild itself when a change occurs.