Golan HTTP Server Template

This template contains my preferred way of building a monolith HTTP server.

The template is a small TODO app to give an example for how to write handlers and database logic. But, this repo is meant as a base for a larger server.

The core focus points are:

• http.ServeMux wrapper that implements centralized error handling
• proper request validation and human readable validation errors
• automatic SQL up migration on server startup
• proper logging
  • log each request including method, url, duration, status code
  • when logging from endpoint handlers, a request ID may be automatically attached to logs
  • log format and level depends on environment (production vs development)
• unit testing can be done against real database by utilizing testcontainers

For linting I've opted to enable all possible golangci linters, with the intention to disable any linter that I deem unnecessary, as I continue to work on with this template. This is easier than trying to figure out which of the ~100 linters I need to enable.