Hands-On Full Stack Development with Go

Models

The first step to building a well-designed database layer is to build models for the data. Data models can simply be described as data structures that represent the information that we retrieve from the database and use in our APIs. This is best explained by an example.

In our GoMusic application, since it's simply an online store that sells products, we can identify the distinct models that our application needs to support, as follows:

• A product
• A customer
• A customer order

Let's start writing some code; in your project root folder, you need to create a new folder called backend. Underneath this, create a folder called src, then underneath the src folder, create a folder called models. Now, inside the models folder, create a new ...