Tutorial Overview

Welcome to this hands-on tutorial where you'll learn how to build a production-ready RESTful API using the Codoworks Go boilerplate. By the end of this tutorial, you'll have a fully functional phonebook service that demonstrates best practices in Go API development.

What you'll learn

In this tutorial, you'll learn:

• How to set up a new project using the Codoworks Go boilerplate
• Basic project structure and organization
• How to work with environment configurations
• How to build and run your service
• How to test your API endpoints

Prerequisites

Before you begin, make sure you have the following installed and configured:

1. GoLang: Version 1.21 or higher

   • You can check your version by running go version
   • Download from go.dev

2. Development Environment:

   • VS Code (recommended) or your preferred text editor
   • Terminal (zsh, bash, or shell)
   • Git for version control

3. Basic Understanding:

   • Familiarity with Go programming language basics
   • Basic understanding of REST APIs
   • Comfort with using the command line

Who is this for

This tutorial is for developers who are familiar with Go and want to build API services rapidly.

Source code

You can find the source code for this tutorial in the go-boilerplate-tutorial repository.