Project Setup

Getting started

It’s critical to have a good project structure. Writing clean code makes it easier to collaborate and update. We’ll ensure that our code is well structured, properly commented on, and easy to understand throughout the development process.

Folder setup

1. We’ll start by creating a folder. Let’s call our folder "shive." This is going to be our root folder.

2. In the integrated terminal in our IDE, we’ll type in go mod init shive-api to create our mod file. Our mod file is where we store all the packages we make use of.

3. Now let’s set up our .env file. It stores our environment variables and constants. To create this, we need to create a file called .env in the root folder.

4. Let’s add a few constants to our .env file. We’ll add our port; we’ll also add our MongoDB connection string from MongoDB Atlas and swap out the <password> field for our shiveAdmin password. We’ll also add a secret key—we can give it any value we want.