Simple Go Web Server

Created from a pluralsight course, this example starts a web server that allows you to create, update, and delete users. No database is currently apart of this setup (will reset each time you re-start the server), but is something I will like to add, along with a HTML interface to handle the aforementioned options.

How to Replicate (Windows example)

Starting from Scratch

If you want to run through the whole course, can follow along and build the code, however first you will want to run the initial setup steps below:

1. Will need to install the Go msi package for Windows
2. Used Visual Studio Code for creating the code, and installed the Go extention
3. Also installed git for Windows
4. After git was installed, in Visual Studio Code run: "ctrl + shift + p", search for "go: install/update tools", select all and hit okay
5. Then can follow along with the course

Clone this Repo

NOTE: This assumes you already have the Go msi AND git installed on your machine (Windows versions)

If you just want to start to play around with the code, can just clone this repo to your machine.

Create a base directory for the files and run:

cd <directory you create>
git clone https://github.com/davidjkling/golang_example.git

This will create a subfolder golang_example, open this folder in Visual Studio Code and in the terminal window run: go build . This will create the webservices.exe. Once built just execute it in the terminal window and it will create the simple web server on localhost:3000

After it is running, can use Advanced REST Client to simulate POST, GET, PUT, and DELETE commands to the web server with json commands.

Eamples of POST/GET/PUT/DELETE Commands

Post:

{
  "FirstName": "Ben",
  "LastName": "Dover"
}

Get:

http://localhost:3000/users/1

Put:

{
  "ID":1,
  "FirstName": "Seymour",
  "LastName": "Buts"
}

Delete:

http://localhost:3000/users/1