Martini: Classy web development in Go
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Martini: Classy web development in Go
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Re: Martini: Classy web development in Go
#2Very cool. Reminiscent of express.js, but statically typed and in Go. I may look at this for future projects.
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#3Would be really nice if the demo was in a normal web page instead of a video. (Also, I'd love to know what vim(?) extension provides the interactive completion with the function signatures! That looks really cool.)
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#4Great work Jeremy. Although there are a number of web frameworks similar to Sinatra on go, this feels to me to be the most natural. The care taken to present this well shows this project has promise.
Are you looking to make this more full featured with an ORM/persistence layer (i.e Rails) or keep it small and similar to Sinatra?
Re: Martini: Classy web development in Go
#5Seems to be missing documentation.
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#6I usually don't like video walk-throughs, but this one was very snappy and a pleasure to watch.
By a happy coincidence, I was just going to start building an API backend in Go today or tomorrow for a side project, and was thinking about doing it with vanilla Go but now I'll probably give Martini a shot (!).
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#7Would be really nice if the demo was in a normal web page instead of a video. (Also, I'd love to know what vim(?) extension provides the interactive completion with the function signatures! That looks really cool.)
Probably gocode, which is a daemon that works with different editors to offer autocompletion (i.e. vim, emacs, etc): https://github.com/nsf/gocode
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#8Seems to be missing documentation.
The docs in the README are a good start: https://github.com/codegangsta/martini
In fact, having now read the rest of the code, they're pretty much comprehensive.
Re: Martini: Classy web development in Go
#9Very cool. Reminiscent of express.js, but statically typed and in Go. I may look at this for future projects.
Looks like a lot of reflection. At that point, I would just stick with express and node. All that magic comes at a cost.
Re: Martini: Classy web development in Go
#10I really like the look of this. There's some very clever API design going on here, and it's clearly taking advantage of Go's language features rather than just trying to be a clone of a framework from another language.
I particularly like the service injection concept. Django forces every view function to take a request object and return a response object. Flask makes these optional, but then requires you to use global variables to access more information from the request. Martini attempts to resolve any arguments it sees by looking up their static type against a service directory. I think that's really clever.
The way it allows you to stack up Handlers is neat too. Django does this with either globally applied middleware or per-view-function decorators, but there's something really neat about just taking a list of functions for things like authentication and "stacking" them on top of each other - or having that same function applied as middleware to every request using m.Use(func...). Using Context.Next() to allow that middleware to "wrap" a request (the equivalent of Django's process_request and process_response pair) is clever as well.
Colour me impressed!