Twisk

Overview

Twisk is a starter kit for Twirp, a framework for service-to-service communication in Golang. It provides a structured packaging, logging, autogenerated swagger docs, and handlers for login/refresh and user CRUD. Twisk was created as a preparation for a Lightning Talk at Gophercon 2018, on building robust APIs with Twirp.

Features

• Fully featured RESTful endpoints for authentication and CRUD operations on the user entity
• Session handling using JWT claims
• JWT Based authentication
• Application configuration via config file (yaml)
• RBAC (role-based access control)
• Structured logging
• Request marshaling and data validation
• Autogenerated API Docs using SwaggerUI
• Mocking using stdlib
• Basic test coverage

Summary

Twisk is a starter kit for Twirp, a framework for service-to-service communication in Golang. It provides various features such as authentication endpoints, CRUD operations on users, session handling with JWT, and autogenerated API documentation using SwaggerUI. Twisk can serve as a starting point for building robust APIs with simplicity and minimalism.