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Ghostly

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Ghostly is a simple, lightweight, and fast full-stack framework for Golang

Functionality:

Object Relation Mapper (ORM) that is database agnostic

A fully functional Database Migration system

A fully featured user authentication system that can be installed with a single command, which includes:

A password reset system

Session based authentication (for web based applications)

Token based authentication (for APIs and systems built with front ends like React and Vue)

A fully featured templating system (using both Go templates and Jet templates)

A complete caching system that supports Redis and Badger

Easy session management, with cookie, database (MySQL and Postgres), Redis stores

Simple response types for HTML, XML, JSON, and file downloads

Form validation

JSON validation

A complete mailing system which supports SMTP servers, and third party APIs including MailGun, SparkPost, and SendGrid

A command line application which allows for easy generation of emails, handlers, database models

the command line application will allow us to create a ready-to-go web application by tying a single command: ghostly new <myproject>

Notice

There is coverage and CI for both Linux, Mac and Windows environments, but I make no guarantees about the bin version working on Windows. Must be Go version 1.17 or higher

Installation

As a library

go get github.com/dominic-wassef/ghostly@latest

or if you want to use it as a bin command I will list the exact steps below:

Step 1. Make a workfolder on your Desktop and cd into it

mkdir Ghostly-App

cd Ghostly-App

Step 2. Clone the repository

git clone git@github.com:Dominic-Wassef/ghostly.git

Step 3. cd into directory and build the binary with the Makefile at root level of the ghostly project

cd ghostly

make build

Step 4. cd into the dist directory of the ghostly application and copy it to your Desktop

cd dist

cp ./ghostly ~/Desktop

Usage

Once above steps have been followed, you can show all ghostly command by going to your Desktop and run:

./ghostly

Making a new project:

./ghostly new $("PROJECT-NAME")

Then cd into your newly made Go project:

cd $("PROJECT-NAME")

Run the project by using the makefile in your new project directory

make start

Here are the types for the Ghostly Framework

type Ghostly struct {
	AppName       string
	Debug         bool
	Version       string
	ErrorLog      *log.Logger
	InfoLog       *log.Logger
	RootPath      string
	Routes        *chi.Mux
	Render        *render.Render
	Session       *scs.SessionManager
	DB            Database
	JetViews      *jet.Set
	config        config
	EncryptionKey string
	Cache         cache.Cache
	Scheduler     *cron.Cron
	Mail          mailer.Mail
	Server        Server
}

Below types are for Server and Config:

type Server struct {
	ServerName string
	Port       string
	Secure     bool
	URL        string
}

type config struct {
	port        string
	renderer    string
	cookie      cookieConfig
	sessionType string
	database    databaseConfig
	redis       redisConfig
}

For full documentation please refer to the package on: Ghostly Documentation

Who?

The full library ghostly was written by Dominic-Wassef