appy
An opinionated productive web framework that helps scaling business easier, i.e. focus on monolith first, only move to microservices with GRPC later on when your team is ready.
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Additional Notes
appyis made as a package for your application to import without the need to install any additional binaryappyglues the great packages to provide best productivity in developing Go web applicationappycomes with 2 build types:- debug - when the code is NOT running within the binary
- release - when the code is running within the binary
appyfollows 12factor viaAPPY_ENVenvironment variable:- by default, it is
development - when
APPY_ENV=stagingis set, the config file isconfigs/.env.staging - utilise
configs/.env.<APPY_ENV>to support multiple environments deployment
- by default, it is
Table Of Contents
Overview
Features
package cmd
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Powerful built-in commands
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My first awesome web application in Go. Usage: myapp [command] Available Commands: build Compile the static assets into go files and build the release build binary (only available in debug build) config:dec Decrypt a config value using the secret in `configs/<APPY_ENV>.key` or `APPY_MASTER_KEY` (only available in debug build) config:enc Encrypt a config value using the secret in `configs/<APPY_ENV>.key` or `APPY_MASTER_KEY` (only available in debug build) db:create Create all databases for the current environment db:drop Drop all databases for the current environment db:migrate Migrate the database(default: all, use --database to specify the target database) for the current environment db:migrate:status List all the database migration status(default: all, use --database to specify the target database) for the current environment db:rollback Rollback the database(default: primary, use --database to specify the target database) to previous version for the current environment db:schema:dump Dump all the databases schema for the current environment (only available in debug build) db:schema:load Load all the databases schema for the current environment db:seed Seed all databases for the current environment dc:down Tear down the docker compose cluster dc:restart Restart services that are defined in `docker-compose.yml` dc:up Create and start containers that are defined in `docker-compose.yml` gen:migration Generate database migration file(default: primary, use --database to specify the target database) for the current environment (only available in debug build) help Help about any command middleware List all the global middleware routes List all the server-side routes secret Generate a cryptographically secure secret key for encrypting cookie, CSRF token and config secret:rotate Rotate the secret that is used to encrypt/decrypt the configs (only available in debug build) serve Run the HTTP/HTTPS web server without `webpack-dev-server` setup Run dc:up/db:create/db:schema:load/db:seed to setup the datastore with seed data ssl:setup Generate and install the locally trusted SSL certs using `mkcert` ssl:teardown Uninstall the locally trusted SSL certs using `mkcert` start Run the HTTP/HTTPS web server with `webpack-dev-server` in development watch mode (only available in debug build) teardown Tear down the docker compose cluster work Run the worker to process background jobs Flags: -h, --help help for myapp -v, --version version for myapp Use "myapp [command] --help" for more information about a command.
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Flexible custom commands building
package mailer
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Ready-to-use SMTP email sending
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I18n support
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HTML templates binary embed support
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Developer friendly email preview UI
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package pack
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Powerful built-in HTTP middleware
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API Only
RemoveSet-Cookieresponse header if theX-API-ONLY: 1request header is sent. -
CSRF
Protect cookies fromCross-Site Request Forgeryby including/validating a token in the cookie across requests. -
GZIP Compress
Compress the responses before returning it to the clients. -
Health Check
Provide the HTTP GET endpoint for health check purpose. -
I18n
Provide I18n support which the translations are stored in<PROJECT_NAME>/pkg/locales/*.yml. -
Logger
Provide logger support. -
Mailer
Provide mailer support which the views templates are stored in<PROJECT_NAME>/pkg/views/mailers/**/*.{html,txt}. -
Prerender
Prerender and return the SPA page rendered by Chrome if the HTTP request is coming from the search engines. -
Real IP
Retrieves the client's real IP address viaX-FORWARDED-FORorX-REAL-IPHTTP request header. -
Recovery
Recover the HTTP request from panic and return 500 error page. -
Request ID
Generate UUID v4 string for every HTTP request. -
Request Logger
Log the HTTP request information. -
Secure
Provide the standard HTTP security guards. -
Session
Provide session management using cookie/redis. -
SPA
Provide SPA hosting with specific path. -
View Engine
Provide server-side HTML template rendering.
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Fully integrated with gqlgen with watch mode
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Ready-to-use test context builder for unit test
package record
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Powerful database management commands
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db:create Create all databases for the current environment db:drop Drop all databases for the current environment db:migrate Migrate the database(default: all, use --database to specify the target database) for the current environment db:migrate:status List all the database migration status(default: all, use --database to specify the target database) for the current environment db:rollback Rollback the database(default: primary, use --database to specify the target database) to previous version for the current environment db:schema:dump Dump all the databases schema for the current environment (only available in debug build) db:schema:load Load all the databases schema for the current environment db:seed Seed all databases for the current environment
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Extended
sql.DBwith sqlx -
Fully featured ORM
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- Multiple databases support
- Master/Replica switch
- Soft delete
- Associations (Not Yet Supported)
- Has One
- Has Many
- Belongs To
- Many To Many
- Polymorphism
- Preload
- Eager Load
- Callbacks
- BeforeValidate/AfterValidate
- BeforeCreate/AfterCreate
- BeforeDelete/AfterDelete
- BeforeUpdate/AfterUpdate
- BeforeCommit/AfterCreateCommit/AfterDeleteCommit/AfterUpdateCommit
- BeforeRollback/AfterRollback
- Composite primary keys
- Execution with context
- SQL query builder/logger/inspector
- Transactions
- Validations with I18n support
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Performant ORM
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go test -run=NONE -bench . -benchmem -benchtime 10s -failfast ./record goos: darwin goarch: amd64 pkg: github.com/appist/appy/record BenchmarkInsertRaw-4 1239 10103533 ns/op 88 B/op 5 allocs/op BenchmarkInsertDB-4 898 11351591 ns/op 1548 B/op 19 allocs/op BenchmarkInsertORM-4 826 13826999 ns/op 15338 B/op 283 allocs/op BenchmarkInsertMultiRaw-4 529 21830643 ns/op 107896 B/op 415 allocs/op BenchmarkInsertMultiDB-4 481 20931749 ns/op 166302 B/op 441 allocs/op BenchmarkInsertMultiORM-4 471 23261618 ns/op 791677 B/op 3872 allocs/op BenchmarkUpdateRaw-4 903 13807008 ns/op 1064 B/op 21 allocs/op BenchmarkUpdateDB-4 1008 13577352 ns/op 3677 B/op 52 allocs/op BenchmarkUpdateORM-4 788 13923442 ns/op 8920 B/op 233 allocs/op BenchmarkReadRaw-4 2162 4723198 ns/op 1810 B/op 47 allocs/op BenchmarkReadDB-4 2263 5300805 ns/op 3257 B/op 69 allocs/op BenchmarkReadORM-4 2259 5184327 ns/op 6911 B/op 230 allocs/op BenchmarkReadSliceRaw-4 2210 5871991 ns/op 23088 B/op 1331 allocs/op BenchmarkReadSliceDB-4 2197 5752959 ns/op 25070 B/op 1353 allocs/op BenchmarkReadSliceORM-4 1864 6249231 ns/op 246630 B/op 1526 allocs/op PASS ok github.com/appist/appy/record 344.692s
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Ready-to-use DB/ORM mocks for unit test
package view
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Performant and fully featured template engine
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I18n support
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HTML templates binary embed support
package worker
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Fully featured background job processing backed by Redis
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- Cron jobs (Work In Progress)
- Expiring jobs
- Unique jobs
- Scheduled jobs
- Error handling
- Middleware
- Responsive Web UI + Authorization + Search (Work In Progress)
- Strict/Weighted priority queues
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Ready-to-use handler mock for unit test
Getting Started
Prerequisites
Quick Start
Step 1: Create the project folder with go module and git initialised.
$ mkdir <PROJECT_NAME> && cd $_ && go mod init $_ && git init
Note: The <PROJECT_NAME> must be an alphanumeric string.
Step 2: Create main.go with the snippet below.
package main
import (
"github.com/appist/appy/cmd"
)
func main() {
err := cmd.Scaffold()
if err != nil {
panic(err)
}
}
Step 3: Initialize the project layout.
$ go run .
Step 4: Setup the databases using Docker Compose.
$ go run . setup
Step 5: Start developing your application locally.
$ go run . start
Acknowledgement
- asynq - For processing background jobs
- cobra - For building CLI
- gin - For building HTTP router
- gqlgen - For building GraphQL API
- sqlx - For interacting with MySQL/PostgreSQL
- testify - For writing unit tests
- zap - For blazing fast, structured and leveled logging
Contribution
Please make sure to read the Contributing Guide before making a pull request.
Thank you to all the people who already contributed to appy!
License
Copyright (c) 2019-present, Appist
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