Hero Image
App Engine Update Which Helps My Unit Tests!

I began to write unit tests for my private project and ran into a weird problem that I have seen others comment on because of the inability to use fake HTTP requests for things like unit testing. For particular App Engine operations, you pass the incoming HTTP request object to things like the Datastore. However, for unit tests, you have to create a fake HTTP request. Or so I thought.

September 30, 2014 Read
Hero Image
Go and App Engine: Part 2 – Development

This is part 2 of a series of posts that involve developing and publishing to Google’s App Engine with Go as the backend. In addition, it will exemplify how to take advantage of the App Engine’s new module system. This post will explore the actual development and local testing. Module Architecture Google has moved to from having a single frontend (with optional backends) to this notion of modules in 2013. This is important as it stresses the importance of modularizing your code.

September 14, 2014 Read
Hero Image
Go and App Engine: Part 1 – Setup

This is part 1 of a series of posts that involve developing and publishing to Google’s App Engine with Go as the backend. In addition, it will exemplify how to take advantage of the App Engine’s new module system. This post will run through setting up your existing Go environment to develop using Google App Engine. Setup Installing Google Cloud SDK for Go This post assumes you already have Go setup.

August 31, 2014 Read