Snippet box

Snippetbox is a web-application, which lets people paste and share snippets of text — a bit like Pastebin or GitHub’s Gists.

Features

• Authentication. Users can register and sign in.
• Protected endpoints. Only signed-in users can create snippets.
• RESTful routing.
• Middleware.
• MySQL database.
• SSL/TLS web server using HTTP 2.0.
• Generated HTML via Golang templates.
• CRSF protection.

Development

Generate a self signed https certificate:

$ mkdir tls
$ cd tls
$ go run /usr/local/go/src/crypto/tls/generate_cert.go --rsa-bits=2048 --host=localhost

Run the app:

go run cmd/web

Starts the local web server with HTTPS on port 4000 (https://localhost:4000)