Go-ing Quickly With GoBuffalo

A brief introduction to GoBuffalo, the Go web development ecosystem, designed to make your life easier. From my talk given at GoSheffield, March 5th 2020.

Transcript

1. Going Quickly with GoBuffalo GoSheffield 5th March 2020
2. Hi, I’m Will Gough. - Remote Software Engineer @ Utility Warehouse - Writing Go professionally for ~2 years. - @whg_codes - devtheweb.io
3. ➔ GoBuffalo? ➔ Demo Time for a demo app built specifically for the GoSheff meetup ➔ Building the application A review of the steps taken to produce the demo application ➔ Thoughts Some reflections to leave you with…
4. Who’s heard of GoBuffalo before?
5. What is it? - Buffalo CLI - Routing - Templating - Testing - Development workflow with Hot Code Reloading - Frontend pipeline e.g Webpack & yarn as default - ORM (Pop) - Support for background tasks/workers “A Go web development ecosystem, designed to make your life easier”
6. “You don’t need a framework”
7. DEMO TIME https://gosheff.herokuapp.com/meetups
8. Creating the application...
9. Make the ‘Meetup’
10. Make the ‘Pizza’
11. Make the ‘PizzaRequest’
12. The End!
13. Relationships in GoBuffalo (via Pop) Source: https://gobuffalo.io/en/docs/db/relations/ - One to One - One to Many - Many to Many
14. Putting the Pizza in PizzaRequest
15. Tying the PizzaRequest to the Pizza
16. Adding the Meetup to the PizzaRequest
17. Tying the PizzaRequests to the Meetup
18. Changing the templates Source: https://github.com/gobuffalo/tags/wiki/Select-Tag
19. Updating the handlers
20. The magic method...
21. Closing thoughts... - Great for prototyping or shipping an MVP/POC (these slides took twice as long as the app) - Ideal for building that new site your dad’s friend wants really quick - Contributors do a fantastic job with it and are super helpful in the #buffalo channel (gophers slack) - It’s not yet v1
22. Thanks for listening! If you have any questions, feel free to ask them now or grab me afterwards. I’ll do my best to answer!
23. We’re hiring @ Utility Warehouse!