The Unofficial pop Book

A collection of recipes and how-to's that will result into a deep dive of the popular and useful Golang package pop. So what is pop? pop provides mechanisms for interacting with database in an ORM-like way:

• CRUD operations
• migrations
• models
• transaction handling

The pop documentation intentionally doesn't label itself as an ORM, but there's enough ORM functionality there I don't see where applying the term to the project would be incorrect.

Assumptions

• You have a working understanding of Golang. You don't need to be an expert but you've at least written a few programs and know your way around.
• You have an understanding of what CRUD operations are, what a database migration is, and what database modeling is.
• You know how to set up the standard Golang workspace, and know how to fetch remote packages.

Why pop?

pop offers several advantages:

• CRUD operations
• Code-defined models
• Migrations tool for creating, dropping, and modifying
• Database support:
  • PostgreSQL (>= 9.3)
  • MySQL (>= 5.7)
  • SQLite (>= 3.x)
• ActiveRecord UUID pattern
• YAML configuration
• Easy environment variable usage
• Create and update timestamps per record