experiments with go/golang web programming

i've been thinking for some more or less practical tasks to learn Go and came up with this: the ultimate goal is a web server adding links to delicious. apart from web / backedn programming it is also an exercise in a tiny bit of frontend tasks: intergrating bootstrap and some jquery into the final "product"

for simple communication with delicious api i used code from https://github.com/josegm/yummy/, since for some reason my hacks didn't work. other than that the code used http package with Gorilla's mux. i had a lot of fun with the frontend, header.html, where i played somewhat with bootstrap and jquery's ajax.

eventually i also added dependency management through glide and docker image configuration in the Dockerfile file

further on, for docker's image i switched from using ubuntu image as a base (which would result in 750MB images) to alpine base (only about 15MB(!) image). for this to work though, the Dockerfile includes a directive to add to the image file ca-certificates.crt. it is usualy found in /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt, needs to be present in the build folder so the docker image creation succeeds.

one more setup step is to include a file delicious.json also in the build folder it should look like; create clientId and secret on delicious' site { "clientID": "123123123123123123123123123", "clientSecret": "345345345345345345345345345", "username": "your user name", "password": "your password" }

if you plan to build a docker image as prescribed in the Dockerfile, you should build the executable with: CGO_ENABLED=0 GOOS=linux go build -a -installsuffix cgo -o deligo . more info at http://esdeeblog.blogspot.de/2015/10/create-slim-and-lean-docker-image-for.html