Welcome to Gin-api-request 👋

This project is a starting platform for a Golang project with Gin webframework that pulls data from an external API and caches the result. The project includes a responsive Bootstrap template.

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✨ Demo (OpenWeatherMap-Api - Current weather in Stuttgart, Germany)

tbd

Prerequisit

• golang > 1.18

Installation

go install

Environment varaibles

You can set the following environment variables:

NAME	required	Comment
API_KEY	yes	You can get your own free OpenWeatherApi key on this website: https://home.openweathermap.org/users/sign_up
HOST	yes	Listening on given ip adress (default: "" maps to 0.0.0.0)
PORT	yes	Listening on given port (default: 8080)

You can either set the environment variables or use the .env file: Make your own copy of the .env file and specify the .env and add the keys.

cp ./.env_default ./.env

Learn more about the OpenWeatherMap API: https://openweathermap.org/api

Getting Started

First, run the development server:

go run main.go

Open http://localhost:8080 with your browser to see the result.

compile and start from source

go build main.go
./main