gin notes

auth, sessions, cookies, and a lot of pain

everything that went wrong building cross-domain httponly cookie auth with next.js middleware and go — and how we fixed it

gin boilerplate walkthrough

reading through a production gin setup — what each piece does and why

jwt auth flow

how register, login, and refresh token work in my go/gin ecom backend — the why behind every decision

testing go handlers

how i wrote tests for gin handlers — mocks, httptest, cookies, jwts, mistakes i made

request validation

how gin binding, validation errors, and api responses are structured in cartspace

deploying go/gin to render

how to deploy a go backend that lives inside a turborepo monorepo — build cmd, openapi path, gin mode, all the gotchas