I'm a NodeJs dev trying to learn Go for web development and need help.

[rare ledge]

I know a little of software development. I've spent 4 years building stuff and leading projects, mostly on NodeJs.
Recently I've been having a hard time trying to learn Golang, I feel like not much of my knowledge is transferable to Go. Can anyone help me get on track?
Thank you in advance.

Go CHI looks pretty simple, but when I open a github repo like this one:
https://github.com/dhax/go-base
90% of the stuff here is alien to me. No idea why it's there and if my server should have it.

[round warren]

You could start with a simple REST api using https://echo.labstack.com/.

I'd ignore most of that repo you linked until you know you need something 😉

[rare ledge]

Yeah, I will try to go slow and steady on learning it instead of rushing so I can start my new project in Go

[gentle nimbus]

you don't need a framework at all

specially when learning

have a look at https://go.dev/doc/articles/wiki/ ?

[rare ledge]

I understand that, go chi seems simple enough, I like how it works.

[rare ledge]

not far from the vanilla stuff

[gentle nimbus]

if you like chi there is https://github.com/madxmike/zenith-bookshop

I'd still do without anything in the context of "trying to learn Go" but...

[rare ledge]

But I feel like there are a lot of unwritten rules, like how you meant to struct your directories (I've read the faq). In ExpressJs or Fastify, I would just create a main routing place, and one folder for each entity. In e.x.:

src|
   |-entities|
   |        |-user
   |         |-events
   |         |-meals
   |-authorization
etc

[rare ledge]

I'm sorry I think my English is not very good. I don't understand this

[gentle nimbus]

go is even simpler, no ./src

english is also not my first language 🙂 I'm trying to say that when learning it's useful to use only what the language provides, after which you can see if you really need some additional libraries

[rare ledge]

Got you, it makes sense. I'm a bit stubborn to accept this advice because I want to learn as fast as possible, but I will give it a try

(like, I tend to jump into the most common industry standard in hopes to accelerate the process)

[rare ledge]

Is this like a boilerplate/example for a chi backend?

[gentle nimbus]

btw we are on a thread so... I already get notifications you replied

Is this like a boilerplate/example for a chi backend?
yes made by @granite fractal

if you use it just drop the useless ./cmd/ or at least not call it "api" :-p

ref https://github.com/go-standard/project-layout#main

[rare ledge]

Ok, I will stop using the answer functionality to reference the message 😅

[gentle nimbus]

it's useful in flat channels like #go-chat but much less in this format specially if only 2 people are talking (at the moment)

[rare ledge]

that makes sense

Ok, these both repos are gonna be really useful on my journey

I have a contract to develop a new api starting on Friday, from my company, I was hoping to learn go until then and just use it from the beginning. I will do it in Node and refactor it once I feel confident enough
(I just said as a side note, this is not important)

I guess I was hoping too high lol

Just one question on this repo
https://github.com/madxmike/zenith-bookshop/blob/main/listing/listing.go
Listing is being used on the files and directories names as an entity, but also as a directory structure pattern?

[granite fractal]

The chi part of it is mostly irrelevant

If I cared more I would replace it with net http

[rare ledge]

It looks like both are almost the same, and the only different that I noticed is that chi has cooler names

This repo is bonkers, thank you three

[gentle nimbus]

I have a contract to develop a new api starting on Friday
well that's a bit more pressing than learning for fun, so yeah it may make sense to use some libraries then