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.

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1. Going Quickly with GoBuffalo
   GoSheffield 5th March 2020
   

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2. Hi, I’m Will Gough.
   - Remote Software Engineer @ Utility Warehouse
   - Writing Go professionally for ~2 years.
   - @whg_codes
   - devtheweb.io
   

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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…
   

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4. Who’s heard of GoBuffalo
   before?
   

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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”
   

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6. “You don’t need a framework”
   

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7. DEMO TIME
   https://gosheff.herokuapp.com/meetups
   

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8. Creating the application...
   

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9. Make the ‘Meetup’
   

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10. Make the ‘Pizza’
    

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11. Make the ‘PizzaRequest’
    

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12. The End!
    

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13. Relationships in
    GoBuffalo (via Pop)
    Source: https://gobuffalo.io/en/docs/db/relations/
    - One to One
    - One to Many
    - Many to Many
    

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14. Putting the Pizza in PizzaRequest
    

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15. Tying the PizzaRequest to the Pizza
    

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16. Adding the Meetup to the PizzaRequest
    

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17. Tying the PizzaRequests to the Meetup
    

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18. Changing the templates
    Source: https://github.com/gobuffalo/tags/wiki/Select-Tag
    

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19. Updating the handlers
    

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20. The magic method...
    

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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
    

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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!
    

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23. We’re hiring @
    Utility Warehouse!
    

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