Scaffolding

go mod init github.com/user/project

After that create a main.go and add it.

// Filename: main.go
package main

func main(){

}

This is the entrypoint of your binary.

Setting up

Intall echo

go get github.com/labstack/echo/v4

Get your Api Key for RAWG

What is RAWG : Here

Get your api key here

Now put it in your .env.

//Filename: .env
API_KEY="yourapikey"

Load .env

This package his self explanatory, it just autoload what is in the .env automatically for us.

go get "github.com/joho/godotenv"

// Filename: main.go
import (
    ...
    _ "github.com/joho/godotenv/autoload"
)

Get started with RAWG

// Filename: main.go

// GET API_KEY from .env file
API_KEY := os.Getenv("API_KEY")

// Build the URL
builder := strings.Builder{}
builder.WriteString("https://api.rawg.io/api/games?key=")
builder.WriteString(API_KEY)

// Make the request
resp, err := http.Get(builder.String())

if err != nil {
    panic(err)
}

// Defer the closing of the response body
defer resp.Body.Close()

// Read the response body
body, err := io.ReadAll(resp.Body)

if err != nil {
    panic(err)
}

// Print the response body
fmt.Println(string(body))

// Now the body is close automatically because there is no need for it anymore

Lets run this

// Filename: Makefile
build:
		@go build -o bin/app

run: build
		@./bin/app

// Nobody write test
test:
		@go test -v ./...

make run it will build and then start the binary.

to see a more clear response you select only the name of the games with jq.

make run | jq -r '.results[].name'

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git reset --hard HEAD

git merge origin/get_started_with_rawg

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