Some Go web dev notes
I spent a lot of time in the past couple of weeks working on a website in Go that may or may not ever see the light of day, but I learned a couple of things along the way I wanted to write down. Here they are:
I’ve never felt motivated to learn any of the Go routing libraries (gorilla/mux, chi, etc), so I’ve been doing all my routing by hand, like this.
But apparently as of Go 1.22, Go now has better support for routing in the standard library, so that code can be rewritten something like this:
I got a little bit tired of writing so much boilerplate for my SQL queries, but I didn’t really feel like learning an ORM, because I know what SQL queries I want to write, and I didn’t feel like learning the ORM’s conventions for translating things into SQL queries.
What I like about this is that if I’m ever unsure about what Go code to write for a given SQL query, I can just write the query I want, read the generated function and it’ll tell me exactly what to do to call it. It feels much easier to me than trying to dig through the ORM’s documentation to figure out how to construct the SQL query I want.
