Joist
Joist is a basics-first framework for Go. It is a replacement for
go-full-stack. It draws
on the knowledge and experience I have gained in the first few runs of setting
up a enterprise grade solution for my current project. During the bulk of my
last updates to the internals, I realized that I need a common starting ground
for any web application I build. Gin is a
stellar solution for others, but I wanted to build a more opinionated kit that
is compliant with net/http, or easily extended to be so.
The biggest difference from net/http is that Handlers now have a signature
that allows them to return an error so that I can centralize error handling and
display (func (w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) error). This is handled
via an exported adapter that sits just above the handler in the middleware
chain. I am using the excellent Chi under the
hood for routing and their convenient pre-built middleware collection (mainly
rate-limiting and RealIP()).
Not much else is really cached at this point, but I don't see a reason why that
won't change should I find I need more caching for obvious caching reasons.
Routes are auto-named (until I look into a better, user-defined solution) and
cached in a map for easy retrieval. A corresponding URL Builder for named routes
and a separate New... method are provided.
Both route caching and sessions are handled via an embedded in-memory (persistent by default) store (BadgerDB).
Eventually, I would really like to implement a declarative routing format that will allow the user to define routes in a single structure, alongside their middleware and any sub-routers/routing groups.
SQL will likely be managed via SQLC and backed by PostgreSQL, although this will be the last piece of the puzzle I implement. I am reluctant to pin myself to one solution here, hence the lean towards SQLC, although the more I read up on Ent the more I like it. Ultimately, I want to be able to freely swap out the database layer without affecting the rest of the framework. Not quite Doctrine ORM, but implementations for a few selected databases would be nice (namely: PostgreSQL, SQLite3, and MySQL/MariaDB).