An example Golang Web Application

When I first started developing websites in the Go programming language, I frequently wished that there was a complete example of a simple but complete web application that I could inspect.

heyfyi aims to fill the need that I had as a developer. This project is designed to be a complete example for the novice developer, featuring basics such as a secure accounts system, email transmission, in-depth templating, and a basic AJAX api for some web requests.

The program was designed around the gocraft mux and middleware package.

It is built to the following architecture diagram:

Absolutely. It is possible that there are mistakes, conceptual or otherwise, in the code. If you spot any, please submit an issue or a pull request!

In addition, as I do not have much experience with UI, there are many places where this could be improved.

You can go get github.com/kiwih/heyfyi this project.

Once you have acquired it, go get -u then go build.

As this program uses sqlite, you will need gcc to use cgo. If you are developing on windows, I recommend mingw-64 and not cygwin.

Finally, you can run it by running ./heyfyi

On the first run, it will create the database file and tables.

This will contain a default fact and a default admin user.

You can sign in to the default admin user with username/password both test@test.

$COOKIE_STORE_SALT - used in cookie encryption. It defaults to SUPER_SECRET_SALT for testing purposes only.

$HTTP_PORT - set the HTTP port to listen on. Defaults to 3000.

$LOG_FILE_NAME - set the logfile name for logging. Defaults to heyfyi.txt.