gobuffalo/buffalo

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Mindmap

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    What it does
      Full-stack Go framework
      Project scaffolding
      Wired out of the box
    Components
      Gorilla Mux routing
      Plush templates
      Pop ORM
      Soda migrations
    Use Cases
      Web apps
      REST APIs
      Database apps
    Audience
      Go developers
      Backend engineers
    Community
      Slack channel
      Stack Overflow

mindmap root((buffalo)) What it does Full-stack Go framework Project scaffolding Wired out of the box Components Gorilla Mux routing Plush templates Pop ORM Soda migrations Use Cases Web apps REST APIs Database apps Audience Go developers Backend engineers Community Slack channel Stack Overflow

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Things people build with this

USE CASE 1

Scaffold a new Go web app with routing, database, and server-side templates already connected using a single Buffalo command.

USE CASE 2

Build a REST API with database-backed models using Buffalo's Pop ORM without writing raw SQL.

USE CASE 3

Generate and run database migrations with Buffalo's Soda CLI to safely update your database schema across environments.

USE CASE 4

Deploy a full-stack Go web application with server-side HTML rendering and front-end asset bundling.

Tech stack

GoGorilla MuxPlushPop

Getting it running

Difficulty · moderate Time to first run · 30min

Requires Go modules and a running database (PostgreSQL, MySQL, or SQLite) with connection details configured before generating your first model.

In plain English

Buffalo is a web development framework for the Go programming language, designed to help developers build full web applications without spending a lot of time on boilerplate setup. The goal is to give you a project that is already wired together, front-end and back-end, so you can start writing the parts specific to your application rather than configuring infrastructure. When you start a new Buffalo project, it sets up the directory structure, routing, database connectivity, templating, and front-end asset handling as a connected package from the beginning. This is different from assembling these pieces yourself using separate libraries. The framing is similar in spirit to Rails for Ruby, in that the framework makes strong choices about how a project should be organized so you spend less time making decisions about plumbing. Under the hood, Buffalo stitches together several well-regarded Go libraries. Routing is handled by Gorilla Mux. Templating uses a package called Plush, which the Buffalo team chose over Go's built-in template system for being more flexible to work with. Database access uses Pop, a separate Buffalo project that provides an ORM (a way to interact with databases using Go code rather than raw SQL) and a command-line tool called Soda. Buffalo requires Go modules and officially supports the two most recent versions of Go. The current stable release is version 1. Documentation, tutorials, and getting-started guides are hosted on the project's own website rather than in the repository itself. Contributions are welcomed. The project asks that contributors open an issue before writing a pull request so the team can confirm the approach makes sense. The community is active on a Slack channel dedicated to Buffalo and on Stack Overflow. GitHub issues are reserved for bug reports and feature requests rather than questions.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1

Create a new Buffalo web application with a User model that has name and email fields, then show me the generated routes and migration file.

Prompt 2

Show me how to define a Buffalo route that accepts a POST request, validates a form input, and saves a new record to the database using Pop.

Prompt 3

How do I add session-based authentication middleware to a Buffalo app that redirects unauthenticated users to a login page?

Prompt 4

Write a Plush template in Buffalo that loops over a list of blog posts and renders them as an HTML list with title links and date labels.

Prompt 5

How do I run database migrations with Soda in a Buffalo project and roll back the last migration if it introduced an error?

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