Quickstart

In this quickstart, we’ll glean insights from code segments and learn how to:

Requirements

• Go 1.16 or above

Installation

To install Gin package, you need to install Go and set your Go workspace first.

1. Download and install it:

$ go get -u github.com/gin-gonic/gin

2. Import it in your code:

import "github.com/gin-gonic/gin"

3. (Optional) Import net/http. This is required for example if using constants such as http.StatusOK.

import "net/http"

1. Create your project folder and cd inside

$ mkdir -p $GOPATH/src/github.com/myusername/project && cd "$_"

2. Copy a starting template inside your project

$ curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gin-gonic/examples/master/basic/main.go > main.go

3. Run your project

$ go run main.go

Getting Started

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First, create a file called example.go:

# assume the following codes in example.go file
$ touch example.go

Next, put the following code inside of example.go:

package main

import "github.com/gin-gonic/gin"

func main() {
	r := gin.Default()
	r.GET("/ping", func(c *gin.Context) {
		c.JSON(200, gin.H{
			"message": "pong",
		})
	})
	r.Run() // listen and serve on 0.0.0.0:8080
}

And, You can run the code via go run example.go:

# run example.go and visit 0.0.0.0:8080/ping on browser
$ go run example.go