| Thanks for the feedback. The layout used here is not something I came up with. It's an emerged pattern from popular open source projects. Like you said, most probably they all started with simple package and as the project grew abstracted out things finally leading to a similar layout. The layout itself is another community effort (https://github.com/golang-standards/project-layout). This is not to say that the layout is a standard or the best possible one. It has it's advantages and disadvantages (a whole git repository and a blog article is dedicated to describe both aspects. Hence, I will not get into that discussion here). I chose the layout simply because it's already a well documented one. That being said, I will be more than happy to see other layout and even refactor the structure. Open source projects generally are not typical web apps or REST API services. They are platforms or tools like docker, kubernetes, Hugo etc. While these projects are good usecases for studying golang code, they feel very complex due to their specific non-simple (if not complex) domain. My idea was to have a web app and API service project which has dead simple domain but highlights the coding practices so that newcomers can read and understand without having to understand what containers are etc. Few other clarifications I would like to make: - every directory is not essentially a package in Go. Only directories that have at least one go file are packages. Internal and PKG are not supposed to be packages in that sense. They are just a superficial boundaries between internal and public code. - web directory is not a package in this project.. it contains static asset files. - simplicity is something i absolutely love. That is the main reason I like golang. If you look past the outer structure of the project and dig into the code and packages, I think you will see the simplistic design inside. My other projects (e.g. https://github.com/spy16/radium) follow the simplistic method you explained. |