Test and build

Since v0.3.0

Test

go test ./...

Tests boot the app with test settings and a database of their own (SQLite in memory, or .env.testing’s), and send requests to it like a browser, through anetostest:

// illustrative
func TestHome(t *testing.T) {
	app := anetostest.New(t, setup)
	app.Get("/").AssertOK().AssertSee("Welcome")
}

Each test runs in a transaction that is rolled back, so tests don’t see each other’s rows. make:crud and make:auth wrote tests for their pages; add one for each page and form you write. Test your app shows forms, signed-in users, emails and queue jobs.

Build

go tool anetos build   # bin/blog
./bin/blog migrate
./bin/blog             # the web server, the queue's workers and the scheduler

anetos build compiles the views and the models’ columns, then builds one static binary that holds the migrations, the views and the files of public/ and locales/. A server needs only the binary and its settings (the environment, or a file: deploy/production.env.example lists them).

Deploy runs it on a server with systemd, in a container (the project has a Dockerfile), or on Fly.io and Render.

Next: the tutorial builds a whole app, step by step.