A minimal REST API for creating To-Do Lists

The project covers the following concepts:

• developing web applications in Go, following the REST API design;
• working with the gin-gonic/gin framework;
• the Clean Architecture approach to building the application structure;
• dependency injection technique;
• working with the PostgreSQL database;
• working with Docker;
• generating migration files;
• configuring the app using the spf13/viper library;
• working with environment variables;
• authentication and authorization using JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) and Middleware;
• writing SQL queries;
• graceful shutdown.

To run the application:

Install Docker Desktop and run the following command:

docker compose up

Install the Migrate utility and apply existing migrations to the database:

migrate -path ./schema -database "postgres://postgres:postgres@localhost:5432/postgres?sslmode=disable" up

Run the application:

go run ./cmd/main.go