I confess. I love slick things. One of these is the fabulous Spring Initializr website. I wondered: Can I do something similar? The answer is yes, in a very simple, rudimentary way.
I see the need to provide developers with scaffolded apps, very quickly. This is taking a HelloWorld concept, and ramping it up slightly. I wanted to include:
- A web framework to provide basic API capabilities (GET/POST)
- A basic testing framework structured
- A Dockerfile
- A Makefile
So - I built this in Go (even the UI via Go Templates), but the first “boilerplate” API is Python3 with Flask as the web framework. You can see the repo here.
What the Go environment executes? A simple Bash script which blows out a directory structure, complete with tests. It then will zip that up, and push that response back to the client.
Rube Goldberg? Yes. Enormously fun to build? Also yes.
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