go-api-router

Lightweight API httprouter middleware: cors, logging, and standardized error handling.

Installation
Documentation
Examples & Tests
Benchmarks
Code Standards
Usage
Maintainers
Contributing
License

Installation

go-api-router requires a supported release of Go.

go get -u github.com/mrz1836/go-api-router

Documentation

View the generated documentation

Features

Uses the fastest router: Julien Schmidt's httprouter
Uses gofr's uuid package to guarantee unique request ids
Uses MrZ's go-logger for either local or remote logging via Log Entries (Rapid7)
Uses MrZ's go-parameters for parsing any type of incoming parameter with ease
Optional: NewRelic support!
Added basic middleware support from Rileyr's middleware
Optional: JWT Authentication (middleware)
Added additional CORS functionality
Standardized error responses for API requests
Centralized logging on all requests (requesting user info & request time)
Custom response writer for Etag and cache support
GetClientIPAddress() safely detects IP addresses behind load balancers
GetParams() parses parameters only once
FilterMap() removes any confidential parameters from logs
...and more!

Package Dependencies

Julien Schmidt's httprouter package
Rileyr's middleware package
gofrs uuid package
MrZ's go-logger and go-parameters package
NewRelic's go-agent
Golang's golang-jwt

Library Deployment

goreleaser for easy binary or library deployment to GitHub and can be installed via: brew install goreleaser.

The .goreleaser.yml file is used to configure goreleaser.

Use make release-snap to create a snapshot version of the release, and finally make release to ship to production.

Makefile Commands

View all makefile commands

make help

List of all current commands:

all                  Runs lint, test and vet
clean                Remove previous builds and any test cache data
clean-mods           Remove all the Go mod cache
coverage             Shows the test coverage
godocs               Sync the latest tag with GoDocs
help                 Show this help message
install              Install the application
install-go           Install the application (Using Native Go)
lint                 Run the golangci-lint application (install if not found)
release              Full production release (creates release in Github)
release              Runs common.release then runs godocs
release-snap         Test the full release (build binaries)
release-test         Full production test release (everything except deploy)
replace-version      Replaces the version in HTML/JS (pre-deploy)
run-examples         Runs all the examples
tag                  Generate a new tag and push (tag version=0.0.0)
tag-remove           Remove a tag if found (tag-remove version=0.0.0)
tag-update           Update an existing tag to current commit (tag-update version=0.0.0)
test                 Runs vet, lint and ALL tests
test-ci              Runs all tests via CI (exports coverage)
test-ci-no-race      Runs all tests via CI (no race) (exports coverage)
test-ci-short        Runs unit tests via CI (exports coverage)
test-short           Runs vet, lint and tests (excludes integration tests)
uninstall            Uninstall the application (and remove files)
update-linter        Update the golangci-lint package (macOS only)
vet                  Run the Go vet application

Examples & Tests

All unit tests and examples run via GitHub Actions and uses Go version 1.19.x. View the configuration file.

Run all tests (including integration tests)

make test

Run tests (excluding integration tests)

make test-short

Run the examples:

make run-examples

Benchmarks

Run the Go benchmarks:

make bench

Code Standards

Read more about this Go project's code standards.

Usage

View the examples

Basic implementation:

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"net/http"

	"github.com/julienschmidt/httprouter"
	"github.com/mrz1836/go-api-router"
	"github.com/mrz1836/go-logger"
)

func main() {
	// Load the router & middleware
	router := apirouter.New()

	// Set the main index page (navigating to slash)
	router.HTTPRouter.GET("/", router.Request(index))

	// Serve the router!
	logger.Fatalln(http.ListenAndServe(":3000", router.HTTPRouter))
}

func index(w http.ResponseWriter, _ *http.Request, _ httprouter.Params) {
	_, _ = fmt.Fprint(w, "This is a simple route example!")
}

Maintainers


MrZ

Contributing

View the contributing guidelines and please follow the code of conduct.

How can I help?

All kinds of contributions are welcome 🙌! The most basic way to show your support is to star 🌟 the project, or to raise issues 💬. You can also support this project by becoming a sponsor on GitHub 👏 or by making a bitcoin donation to ensure this journey continues indefinitely! 🚀

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