I just finished my first backend with Go using Iris framework but now I need to put it on production so I can use it in the Slack app I built.
In order to test the code locally I only run my file with go run main.go and ngrok to test with the Slack API, it's working and it's finished.
I have a droplet with Ubuntu 16.04.3 and other one with Centos 7... I was searching for something like pm2 for go, running the server and using nginx to point that port but I read that with Go it's different and I have to use something like this https://fabianlee.org/2017/05/21/golang-running-a-go-binary-as-a-systemd-service-on-ubuntu-16-04/
But that's a very long configuration for a simple server and my questions are:
This is really my first time with Go and I just want to learn more, I am a backend developer with Laravel and NodeJS.
I think most people use Supervisor for this purpose, including me.
To make it very easy for you, just take a look at my Golang project, isaac-racing-server and use it as a template for yours by replacing isaac-racing-server with the name of your app. (The Supervisor files are in a subdirectory.)
You can use pm2 if you want. When you build a go project it creates a binary executable, lets say backend-server, which you can run from terminal and will start the app like this:
$ ./backend-server
If it's not executable or has permission denied issue, add the executable permission to it.
$ chmod +x backend-server
You binary should be ready to run. I like to do it with a json config file (process.json) so that I can pass extra env variables as well and don't have to type a lot in terminal. My process.json looks something like this:
{
"apps" : [{
"name" : "backend-app",
"script" : "./backend-server",
"env": {
"DB_USER": "db_user",
"PORT": 8080
}
}]
}
Finally you can start the app using pm2 like this:
$ pm2 start process.json
More details about json config can be found in official doc