While the application code can certainly interact with the database using SQL statements, you needs to be careful to ensure that the DB interactions are not strewn across the application layers. The Data Access Layer (DAL) is a layer that should be responsible for handling entities and their interactions with the database. The rest of the application is abstracted from the DB interaction details.
Objects Relational Mappers (ORMs) are a special form of DAL, which translate DB entities into objects. Generally this is done seamlessly behind the scenes via generic glue code.
GORM is the most popular Go ORM out there. To install it, we run the following command:
go get "github.com/jinzhu/gorm"
To use GORM, you ...
