Golang Backend Mastery

What problem does it solve?

This Skill provides robust, idiomatic, and scalable Go backend solutions, addressing the complexities of building high-performance web services.

Core Features & Use Cases

• HTTP Server Patterns: Demonstrates idiomatic net/http usage with context cancellation, middleware, and graceful shutdown.
• Gin Framework Integration: Showcases best practices for using the Gin framework, including routing, middleware, and request validation.
• Database Interaction: Illustrates type-safe querying with GORM and sqlx, covering CRUD operations, transactions, and soft deletes.
• Concurrency Management: Implements common concurrency patterns like worker pools, fan-out/fan-in, and context-aware goroutines.
• Error Handling: Provides strategies for wrapping errors, defining custom error types, and implementing panic recovery.
• Testing Utilities: Includes examples of table-driven tests, benchmarks, and HTTP handler testing.

Quick Start

Use the golang-backend skill to generate a basic HTTP server using net/http with logging middleware.