Introduction

Niom is a Nestjs inspired progressive Golang web framework for developing efficient and scalable server-side applications. Designed to ease things up for fast development

It is not completely a framework. It is more of a scaffold generator which easy and increases the development cycle. It is loaded with lots of features to pace up the go-based server-side project development.

As Niom is more of a generator framework so control is always in your hand.

Philosophy

In Golang there are lots of HTTP and HTTP-based frameworks none of them provides the complete solution that makes code maintainable and development easy. In NestJS terms, none of them effectively solve the main problem of - Architecture.

Niom provides an out-of-the-box application architecture scaffold which allows developers and teams to create highly testable, scalable, loosely coupled, and easily maintainable applications. The architecture is heavily inspired by NestJS.

Installation

To get started,run the following commands. This will create a new project directory, and populate the directory with the initial core Niom files and supporting modules, creating a conventional base structure for your project.

$ go install github.com/go-niom/niom@latest  
$ niom new project-name 

Running the application

Once the installation process is complete, you can run the following command at your OS Terminal prompt to start the application listening for inbound HTTP requests:

$ niom start

This command starts the app with the HTTP server listening on the port defined in the .env file. Once the application is running, open your browser and navigate to http://localhost:7000/. You should see the Hello World! message.

To watch for changes in your files, you can run the following command to start the application:

$ niom start:dev

This command will watch your files, automatically recompiling and reloading the server.