Cup of Goffee

What is Goffee?

Cup is a skeleton project for the Goffee Go framework made for building web APIs, suitable for small, medium size and microservices projects. With it's simple structure, and developer friendly experience it helps with increasing the productivity.

Main Features

• Routing
• Hooks
• Data Validation
• Databases ORM (GORM integrated)
• Emails
• JWT tokens
• Cache (Redis)
• HTTPS (TLS)
• Queues (asynq)
• Scheduler (DB-backed task runner)
• Server-side template rendering

Installation

To create a new cup project you need to install the Goffee's cli first

Install Goffee [cli] tool

To install the goffee globally open up your terminal and run the following command:

go install git.smarteching.com/goffee/goffee@latest

Create new project using a Cup of Goffee

Here is how you can create new Goffee projects

goffee new [project-name] [project-remote-repository]

Example

goffee new myapp git.smarteching.com/goffee/myapp

where: project-name is the name of your project remote-repository is the remote repository that will host the project.

Getting started

First make sure you have Goffee installed, then use it to create a new project, here is how

Let's create a route that returns hello world

Open up the file routes.go in the root directory of your project and add the following code:

	router.Get("/greeting", func(c *core.Context) *core.Response {
		JsonString := `{"message": "hello world"}`

		return c.Response.Json(JsonString)
	})

Next, in your terminal navigate to the project dir and run the following command to start the live reloading:

goffee run:dev

Finally, open up your browser and navigate to http://localhost/greeting

To learn more check the routing docs section

Architecture

The architecture is similar to MVC, where there is a routes file ./routes.go in which you can map all your app routes to their controllers which resides in the directory ./controllers. Controllers are simply methods that handles requests (GET, POST, ... etch) to the given routes.

The request journey:

The first component that receive's the request in Cup is the Router, then Goffee locates the matching handler of the request and it check's if there are any hooks to be executed either before or after the controller, if so, it executes them in the right order, then at the final stage it returns the response to the user. Request -> Router -> Optional Hooks -> Controller -> Optional Hooks -> Response

Configuration

The application is configured through the config/ package. Each file exposes a single Get...Config() function that returns a core.*Config struct. The most important toggles are:

File	Function	Controls
config/dotenvfile.go	GetEnvFileConfig()	Whether to load variables from the .env file
config/request.go	GetRequestConfig()	Max upload file size
config/gorm.go	GetGormConfig()	Enables the GORM database layer
config/cache.go	GetCacheConfig()	Enables the cache (Redis)
config/queue.go	GetQueueConfig()	Enables the queue system (asynq)
config/scheduler.go	GetSchedulerConfig()	Enables the DB-backed scheduler

The enabled features are wired up in main.go. For example, queues are only started when GetQueueConfig().EnableQueue is true, and the scheduler only when GetSchedulerConfig().EnableScheduler is true.

Background jobs

Cup ships with two independent background processing systems, both disabled by default.

Queues (asynq)

The queue system is built on asynq. Register your task handlers in register-queues.go:

queque.AddWork(workers.TypeWelcomeEmail, workers.HandleWelcomeEmailTask)

Task types and handlers live under workers/. To enqueue a task from a controller use the queue client, as shown in controllers/queuesample.go:

client := c.GetQueueClient()
client.Enqueue(asynq.NewTask(workers.TypeWelcomeEmail, payload))

Scheduler

The scheduler is a lightweight, DB-backed task runner. Register handlers in register-scheduler.go:

sched.AddWork("send_email", handleSendEmail)

Tasks are enqueued into the queue_items table and can run multiple times, with priorities and concurrency. See controllers/schedsample.go for examples of enqueuing tasks with different maxRuns / thread / priority values.

Managing the scheduler from the CLI

The goffee cli provides commands to inspect and manage the scheduler tables. They must be run from the project directory:

goffee scheduler:queue     dev          # list pending/processing tasks
goffee scheduler:processed dev 20       # list the last 20 processed executions
goffee scheduler:semaphore dev          # show the semaphore state
goffee scheduler:semaphore dev red      # block execution (after restart)
goffee scheduler:truncate  dev          # empty the queue and processed logs

Folder structure

├── cup
│   ├── config/ --------------------------> main configs
│   ├── controllers/ ---------------------> route's controllers
│   ├── events/ --------------------------> contains events
│   │   ├── event-names.go ---------------> event name constants
│   │   └── eventjobs/ -------------------> contains the event jobs
│   ├── hooks/ ---------------------------> app hooks
│   ├── logs/ ----------------------------> app log files
│   ├── models/ --------------------------> database models
│   ├── storage/ -------------------------> a place to store files
│   │   ├── app/ -------------------------> static files served under /app
│   │   ├── cdn/ -------------------------> static files served under /cdn
│   │   ├── public/ ----------------------> static files served under /public
│   │   ├── sqlite/ ----------------------> sqlite database file
│   │   └── templates/ -------------------> server-side templates
│   ├── tls/ -----------------------------> tls certificates
│   ├── utils/ ---------------------------> shared helpers and seed data
│   ├── workers/ -------------------------> queue task types and handlers
│   ├── .env -----------------------------> environment variables
│   ├── .gitignore -----------------------> .gitignore
│   ├── go.mod ---------------------------> Go modules
│   ├── LICENSE --------------------------> license
│   ├── main.go --------------------------> go main file
│   ├── README.md ------------------------> readme file
│   ├── register-events.go ---------------> register events and jobs
│   ├── register-global-hooks.go ---------> register global hooks
│   ├── register-queues.go ---------------> register queue workers
│   ├── register-scheduler.go ------------> register scheduler tasks
│   ├── routes.go ------------------------> app routes
│   ├── run-auto-migrations.go -----------> database migrations