snowflake

Snowflake

Yet another Go web application generator.

Features:

• Opinionated with the best practices.
• Simplicity with batteries.
• Idiomatic. Every Gopher loves that word.

Installation

go install github.com/gitkumi/snowflake@latest

Quick Start

Here is how to generate a web application with sqlite3 as database.

snowflake new -t api -d sqlite3 acme

Flags

• type (-t)

  • web - Generates a web application that serves HTML. (Requires Node.js 20.x and pnpm)
  • api - Generates a RESTful API application.

• database (-d)

  • sqlite3
  • postgres
  • mysql

Stack

Snowflake is built with these packages. Make sure to check their documentation.

Dev

• air

Routing

• Gin

Database

• sqlc
• goose

Front-end (Web only)

• templ
• Tailwind
• esbuild
• tygo

Make Commands

• make dev - Start the development environment with hot reload.
• make test - Run tests.
• make build - Build the project.
• make run - Run the build.
• make db - Check database status.
• make up - Run database migration.
• make down - Roll back database migration by 1.
• make reset - Roll back all migration.
• make create <table_name> - Create an empty migration file.