REST API Application Initial Setup

Introduction

This application is created with the Go programming language and some additional libraries. The libraries that are used in this project are:

• fiber for creating a server with its handler.
• uuid for creating an ID for data or records inside the storage.
• validator for request validation.

Initialize the project

Initialize the project with this command if you have to run it on a local machine. However, it has already been set up for you at the Educative platform.

go mod init domain_name/username/project_name

Here’s an example of initializing the project command.

go mod init github.com/nadirbasalamah/go-simple-inventory

After the project is initialized, install some libraries using the following commands. ...