fredkelly / go-martini-facebook

Boilerplate API server for applications authenticating via Facebook.

go-martini-facebook

Boilerplate API server for applications authenticating via Facebook.

Motivation

To create simple boilerplate code for building a golang/martini API using Facebook for authentication.

Basic flow

• User connects to your app (e.g. SPA or mobile)
• You get an access token from Facebook via the standard OAuth flow
• That token is then passed to subsequent requests to YOUR API (e.g. Authorization: {MY_TOKEN}).
• The server then stores a corresponding user record (see models/user.go).

Usage

• Clone the repository
• Add database/Facebook app configuration using environment vars (see env-example.sh)
• Install dependencies using godep
• run the server go run server.go
• Try it out curl -H 'Authorization: MY_TOKEN' http://localhost:3000

Built with:

• go-martini/martini
• huandu/facebook
• go-gorp/gorp
• other great stuff.

There's also a bunch of other cruft for receiving/rendering JSON - feel free to add/remove as required!

TODO:

Make it better; right now everything is bunch up, would be nice to add some modularity - I'm a n00b Gopher so could use all the help I can get!