gincoat

README

Gincoat

[Under Development]

What is Gincoat?

Gincoat is a golang framework based on Gin with a development experience similar to Laravel, made for developing modern apis and microservices. it has an MVC like architecture.

Features

• Router
• Middlewares
• JWT tokens
• Multiple database support
• ORM (GORM)
• MongoDB integration
• Redis cache
• TLS
• gRPC
• Package Integrator
• CLI with generators for files and code snippets
• Development Server with hot reloading
• Features Switch

Architecture

the architecture is similar to MVC architecture, there is a routes.go file where you can define all your routes and their handlers, a handler crosponds to a controller action in MVC

The request jouerny looks like this:

request -> routing -> middleware -> handler -> middleware -> json response

Folder structure

├── gincoat
│   ├── config/ ---------------> app configuration
│   ├── core/ -----------------> contains the core packages of the framework
│   ├── httpd/-----------------> all http related functionalities go here 
│   │   ├── handlers/ ---------> contains the requests handlers
│   │   ├── middlewares/ ------> here you can puth your middlewares
│   ├── routes.go -------------> app routes are defined here
│   ├── integrations/ ---------> contains the integrations of third party packages into gin context
│   ├── logs/ -----------------> log files
│   ├── models/ ---------------> models
│   ├── ssl/ ------------------> ssl certificates
│   ├── .env ------------------> environment variables 
│   ├── .gitignore ----------------> gitignore file
│   ├── go.mod --------------------> go modules the project depends on
│   ├── LICENSE -------------------> license
│   ├── main.go -------------------> ssl certificates
│   ├── README.md -----------------> readme file