Concepts
go-zero#
go-zero is a web and rpc framework with many engineering best practices builtin. It was created with the goal of allowing developers to rapidly develop resilient services with rock-solid stability, and has been used to develop web applications with tens of millions users.
goctl#
goctl is an auxiliary tool designed to improve engineering efficiency and reduce errors for developers by providing boilerplates.
goctl plugins#
goctl has an extensible plugin system with multiple plugins. These plugins allow developers to generate boilerplate code and configuration for other architecture elements. Examples include goctl-go-compact which merges all goctl-generated routes into one file, the goctl-swagger plugin for generating swagger documents from api definitions, or the goctl-php plugin for generating php client code, etc.
IntelliJ/Visual Studio Code plugins#
There are also plugins available for the IntelliJ family of IDEs as well as for Visual Studio Code. These plugins expose the CLI functions in the interface of the IDE and provide additional syntax highlighting for API definition files.
API file#
An API file refers to a plaintext file used to define and describe an API service. It ends with the .api suffix and contains an IDL (Interface Description Language) describing the API syntax.
goctl environment#
In order to use goctl the following is required:
- a Golang environment
protoc, the protobuf compiler- the
protoc-gen-goplugin - a go project either using go modules or on the GOPATH
If you don't have all of this setup, please visit the prepare of the documentation to get started.
go-zero-demo#
Quickstart demos are recommended to get started with go-zero.
See below for how to create this in your home directory.