🍳 Gin Recipes (Cookbook)

Introduction

This section shows how to use Gin in your code through small, practical recipes. Each recipe focuses on a single concept so you can learn fast and apply it immediately.

Use these examples as a reference to structure real-world APIs using Gin.

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🧭 What you’ll learn

In this section, you will find examples covering:

• Server Basics: Running a server, routing, and configuration.
• Request Handling: Binding JSON, XML, and form data.
• Middleware: Using built-in and custom middleware.
• Rendering: Serving HTML, JSON, XML, and more.
• Security: Handling SSL, headers, and authentication.

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🥇 Recipe 1: Minimal Gin Server

Goal: Start a Gin server and handle a basic request.

Steps

1. Create a router
2. Define a route
3. Start the server

package main

import "github.com/gin-gonic/gin"

func main() {
  r := gin.Default()

  r.GET("/ping", func(c *gin.Context) {
    c.JSON(200, gin.H{
      "message": "pong",
    })
  })

  r.Run(":8080") // http://localhost:8080
}