Set Up a Database and Connect Beego ORM

Database setup

Beego, being a robust and feature-rich web framework for the Go programming language, provides powerful tools and conventions for handling databases seamlessly. We will go through the essential steps to set up and configure the database in a Beego project.

We will use the MySQL database to store data for our application. Other databases, like Postgre, SQL Lite, etc., can also be used. The database can be set up with the following steps:

Step 1: Creating the user

Run the following command to create a new user called beego_notes with the password tmp_pwd on the MySQL command line: