LMlmarcos·Jun 21, 2021
Goa (https://github.com/goadesign/goa). Having to maintain autogenerated code is worse than to maintain "your own" code.
In Ask HN: What technology do you regret choosing?goadesign
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goa
Design-first Go framework that generates API code, documentation, and clients. Define once in an elegant DSL, deploy as HTTP and gRPC services with zero drift between code and docs.
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| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
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5 sourcesNo problem! I'm not a go dev so there's probably much better stuff out there, but I take note of good stuff when I see it, no matter the language. In no particular order:
In that area, you might want to also check out:
- https://github.com/goadesign/goa
- https://github.com/emicklei/go-restful
- https://github.com/asim/go-micro
- https://github.com/ribice/gorsk
In Show HN: We wrote a book about building business applications in GoHave you looked into goa design[1]? You define your services with a contract via their DSL and it generates all code for you as well; has some nice validation options out of the box.
- similar to grpc gateway you just need to conform to the generated code’s service interface.
I believe it supports, http, websocket and grpc.
[1]https://github.com/goadesign/goa
In REST Servers in Go: Part 1 – standard libraryI really like Goa: https://github.com/goadesign/goa - it has integration with Gorm via Gorma: https://github.com/goadesign/gorma
In Show HN: A simple Go web server with logging, tracing, health check