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Re: Ask HN: Are you using Go for web development?

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Post by stefanmichael »

yes! Jetbrains GoLand helps quite a bit with the more annoying parts of the language (GOPATH, remembering commands for tools, managing go modules, etc)

There are some small things about the language that can feel a little cumbersome (lack of generics for example) but largely happy with the language and the trade offs so far seem worth it.

Re: Ask HN: Are you using Go for web development?

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Post by floren »

We use it. Gorilla mux (https://github.com/gorilla/mux) to route requests plus some in-house handler chains that log, check JWT tokens, etc. We have a Go client library which accesses the web API, so we can do testing without having to involve the frontend team; a combination of tests in the client library and some judicious curl commands is usually enough.

Re: Ask HN: Are you using Go for web development?

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Post by dmlittle »

stefanmichael wrote: post #2

yes! Jetbrains GoLand helps quite a bit with the more annoying parts of the language (GOPATH, remembering commands for tools, managing go modules, etc) There are some small things about the language that can feel a little cumbersome (lack of generics for example) but largely happy with the language and the trade offs so far seem worth it.

Have you managed to get GoLand's IDE tests to work properly? I found that it imports only the file for the test but nothing else which causes errors due to "undefined" things (things defined in the package are not accessible as it only imported a single file). Other than that I'm a happy GoLand user

Re: Ask HN: Are you using Go for web development?

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Post by unfunco »

dmlittle wrote: post #4
stefanmichael wrote: post #2

yes! Jetbrains GoLand helps quite a bit with the more annoying parts of the language (GOPATH, remembering commands for tools, managing go modules, etc) There are some small things about the language that can feel a little cumbersome (lack of generics for example) but largely happy with the language and the trade offs so far seem worth it.

Have you managed to get GoLand's IDE tests to work properly? I found that it imports only the file for the test but nothing else which causes errors due to "undefined" things (things defined in the package are not accessible as it only imported a single file). Other than that I'm a happy GoLand user

No issues with GoLand tests here, maybe edit your configuration and change the "Test kind" field from "File" to "Package" or "Directory".

Re: Ask HN: Are you using Go for web development?

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Post by boyter »

Yes. Nothing fancy from workflow. I pay for and use Goland because I find it so good for refactoring... worth the expense over VSCode.

Generally I use standard library, with the exception being github.com/gorilla/mux Gorilla Mux for routing because it removes so much boilerplate.

I do however use Python for all HTTP integration tests. With requests + voluptuous its so much more productive than doing them in Go, which I had previously done.

Re: Ask HN: Are you using Go for web development?

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Post by jrumbut »

I've created or inherited a few small web services (small, self-contained pieces shared by multiple apps or broken off for load management reasons). I would say Go is pretty good for this, some very nice performance wins were had easily.

I have very little temptation to use it for a whole application though. Unless you are already a Go shop I would advise anyone to just get better at making Ruby, Python, PHP, or JavaScript back ends that are more performant.

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