go-react-monorepo

Go app with Gin and SQLite + React typescript with tailwind, which can easily be deployed to Heroku.

Preparation Running Locally

Make sure you have Go version 1.17 or newer, the Heroku CLI installed, gcc compiler for SQLite and NodeJS for react.

Preparation & Run Backend

1. Make sure env in root folder have APPS_MODE is set to development.
2. Run go run . in your terminal (make sure your terminal in current go project folder) to start backend Go.
3. Your app should now be running on localhost:11001.

note: You can change the port in .env in root folder.

REPEAT=10
APPS_MODE=development
APPS_PORT=11001

Preparation & Run Frontend

1. Open terminal in frontend project folder cd frontend (assumption: your terminal in root go project).
2. Install npm package for our frontend project npm i or npm install.
3. Run frontend with npm run start.
4. Your app should now be running on localhost:12001.

note: your frontend is send request to golang backend via proxy, if you change your backend port you need to update the proxy in the frontend package.json.

{
  "proxy": "http://localhost:11001",
}

Deploying to Heroku

note: make sure env in root folder have APPS_MODE is set to production.

$ heroku create
$ git push heroku main
$ heroku open

or

Documentation

For more information about using Go on Heroku, see these Dev Center articles:

• Go on Heroku