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Gooo - The anti-magic Go lang web framework

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Your amazon credentials might be in the source code.

https://github.com/aaronlifton/Gooo/blob/master/model/model....

Submitted an issue for this. Good catch.

I've sent him an email.

>_< thanks for the email. Thankfully just a free heroku postgres account with auto-generated credentials so I deleted it.

https://github.com/aaronlifton/Gooo/commit/8d5f50fe9e45eb2b3...

Still available ;)

Follow this guide to totally erase it and optionally get rid of those commits where you took it out:

https://help.github.com/articles/remove-sensitive-data

thanks. it's useless data now, every param has changed and the previous are void, but i'll take your advice anyway :)

I know it's useless data now, but I'm sure this won't be the last time you put sensitive data in a git repo... I know it happens to me often :D

This is why I always make config files for my projects that contain usernames and passwords, add that config to the .gitignore and then create a sample_config with the blank version. I learned to do this after one or two commits containing sensitive data. =)

That's something useful that will also keep us from being lazy and hardcoding things when we usually need a config anyway :D

I wish there were some examples- why is this better than "net/http" + Gorilla?

Why the focus on postgres? They talk about using a postgres driver that conforms to "database/sql". But that should mean you could use a mysql "database/sql" compatible driver like the one provided by mymysql (https://github.com/ziutek/mymysql), with no code changes to your project...

The documentation is a bit terse. Might be interesting.

The commit messages are also a bit . . . terse

lol, nearly all the commits are for README.md. I guess he put the project on Github after having nearly finished the framework.

Apologies if this is off topic :

I would love to hear what other "no-magic" frameworks people in the community enjoy developing in. Web.py comes to mind, for example - though I've never worked with it.

I'm curious too. I would love to see someone make nearly an exact clone of Express (the sinatra inspired lib for Node) but for Go.

Basically something that supports the concept of:

- Arbitrary middleware as long as you adhere to a specific signature.

- Proper caching at the http request/response level for dynamic templates.

- Keep the router separate so you can plugin Pat or the Gorilla Muxer (both of them are much different IMO).

- Add some niceties like setting proper headers for certain popular responses (json or templates, etc.) or easily distinguishing if the request is an XHR or not so you can either render a template or json with a quick boolean check.

- Implement Gorilla's session handler or some other solution and expose it in a really clean way that's also easy to plugin different session adapters (app memory, redis, etc.).

- Some functionality of what "res.locals" does in Express.

I honestly feel like part of the reason why Node is so popular is because of Express. tj did a tremendous job making a very out of the way but ridiculously useful web library.

Express with Node

I guess it's time to go for quality of Go web frameworks, not quantity. Authors, work together, please.

This is a framework that cuts the unnecessary metaprogramming and sugar that has been obscuring architecture and slowing code for years. There are no helpers. I called it a framework for ironic effect, however it is a framework - an extremely minimilist one, a program that fetches data and serves requests, and renders data.

Other Go web frameworks are like houses of cards, while this one is like a computer monitor. The cards can be knocked over, but the computer monitor is 27".

Forthcoming features for Gooo v2: - more speed - faster - documentation - quicker - higher rate of movement

Eventually: integrating a persistent key-value store

There are many reasons why someone should choose Go, but "Hip, New, Unproven" aren't any of them. It isn't even unproven. Actually it has proven itself successful in production many times.

Joke

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Alternatives: http://robfig.github.com/revel/ (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4499151)

Also, simply using net/http or Gorilla to piece things together.

I'm quite happy with go-restful and AngularJS for the frontend and hood for a lightweight ORM (though I'm not completely sold on that. DAO is always awkward for me).

I've been very happy with just using net/http, it Just Works and it means I haven't had to learn the Model-View nonsense.

Model-View nonsense? A model is a business object (ie: your data and the stuff it does) and your views are how you format your business objects for various kinds of output. That's the gist of it.

I'm on the same page regarding ORMs/DAOs. It's quick enough to throw some handcrafted SQL in the model or to write up a handful of stored procs.

Ah, I figured out why I didn't quite like revel. Mainly "interceptors" as shown here: http://robfig.github.com/revel/samples/booking.html

It doesn't feel like idiomatic Go to me, which for me is a big deal. Perhaps if I start running into problems using only net/http I'll change my mind.

Will be sure to give revel another try in that case, but it looks like I'll like goooo's approach more.

I also feel revel not idiomatic Go. I'm checking out beego (https://github.com/astaxie/beego).

After it's latest re-api-design I think it looks quite nice and simple. Although some of it is a tiny (why bother) layer ontop of net/http.

I have been eyeing beego for a while, and will probably give it a try very soon. (well beego hasn't been out for long, but have kept it in my head of web frameworks to try since I've seen it :P)

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