GOBACKENDPROJECTSTARTER

This is a dotnet project that helps me with the mundane task of creating a golang backend project from scratch. It uses mostly built-in c# libraries and an external package called CliWrap to perform go commands.

INSTALLATION

1. Clone repository into directory of choice using git clone <https-repo-link>.
2. Navigate to project directory.
3. If using the dotnet CLI, you can run dotnet build in the terminal to build the projeect, or you can use Visual Studio IDE.
4. You can run the application by running dotnet run with dotnet CLI, click on the run button using Visual Studio IDE, or executing the binary in ./bin/Debug/net7.0/GoBackendProjectStarter

GO PROJECT STRUCTURE OUTPUT

{ProjectFolder}/
┣ dtos/
┣ entites/
┣ models/
┣ routes/
┃ ┣ helloHandler.go
┃ ┣ helloRoute.go
┃ ┗ route.go
┣ server/
┃ ┗ server.go
┣ services/
┃ ┣ helloService.go
┃ ┣ helloServiceInterface.go
┃ ┗ service.go
┣ utils/
┃ ┣ config/
┃ ┃ ┗ logger.go
┃ ┗ logger/
┃   ┗ logger.go
┣ .env
┣ .env.example
┣ go.mod
┗ main.go

THINGS I LEARNT

1. How to work with the Cliwrap library to execute shell/bash commands.
2. Create a tree data structure and traverse through it iteratively (using a queue) in order to create files and folders.
3. How to use c# builtin file systen and directory libraries to create, delete, write, and check existing files and folders.
4. Use the ref keyword to pass in string values by reference to a function.
5. Automate a boring task I usually have to do from scratch with C#.