gozen

Gozen is a fast, cross-platform CLI tool designed to eliminate repetitive boilerplate and jumpstart backend development in Go. With a single command, Gozen scaffolds production-grade Go applications built on a clean Model-View-Controller (MVC) architectural pattern—complete with pre-configured database connectivity, dependency wiring, and standard project layouts.

Read project documentation for more information here: Documentation.

Key Features

• Instant MVC Scaffolding: Generates organized, maintainable folder structures separating data models, controllers, and application configuration.
• Turnkey Database Setup: Automatically wires database drivers, pool configurations, and environment loaders with zero manual stitching.
• Module-Ready Initialization: Sets up your Go module paths (github.com/user/app) directly during creation, ensuring clean imports out of the box.
• Cross-Platform Support: Ships as a lightweight, zero-dependency standalone binary compiled natively for Linux, macOS, and Windows.

Installation

Download and install executable binary from GitHub releases page.

Linux Installation

# Use latest tag name from release page
TAG=<tag-name>

curl -sL "https://github.com/tech-thinker/gozen/releases/download/${TAG}/gozen-linux-amd64" -o gozen
chmod +x gozen
sudo mv gozen /usr/bin

MacOS Installation

# Use latest tag name from release page
TAG=<tag-name>

curl -sL "https://github.com/tech-thinker/gozen/releases/download/${TAG}/gozen-darwin-amd64" -o gozen
chmod +x gozen
sudo mv gozen /usr/bin

• Or using homebrew

brew tap tech-thinker/tap
brew install gozen

Windows Installation

# Use latest tag name from release page
TAG=<tag-name>

curl -sL "https://github.com/tech-thinker/gozen/releases/download/${TAG}/gozen-windows-amd64.exe" -o gozen.exe
gozen.exe

Verify checksum

# Use latest tag name from release page
TAG=<tag-name>

# Using sha256sum
curl -sL "https://github.com/tech-thinker/gozen/releases/download/${TAG}/checksum-sha256sum.txt" -o checksum-sha256sum.txt
sha256sum --ignore-missing --check checksum-sha256sum.txt

# Using md5sum
curl -sL "https://github.com/tech-thinker/gozen/releases/download/${TAG}/checksum-md5sum.txt" -o checksum-md5sum.txt
md5sum --ignore-missing --check checksum-md5sum.txt

Output:

gozen-darwin-amd64: OK
gozen-darwin-amd64.tar.gz: OK
gozen-darwin-arm64: OK
gozen-darwin-arm64.tar.gz: OK
gozen-linux-amd64: OK
gozen-linux-amd64.tar.gz: OK
gozen-linux-arm: OK
gozen-linux-arm.tar.gz: OK
gozen-linux-arm64: OK
gozen-linux-arm64.tar.gz: OK
gozen-windows-amd64.exe: OK
gozen-windows-i386.exe: OK

CLI Guide

• gozen help

gozen -h

• Create new project

gozen create -d <database-driver> -p github.com/<username>/<appname> <appname>

Note: database-driver is one of postgres, mysql, sqlite.

• Chenge directory to new project directory

cd <appname>

• Install dependencies

go mod tidy

• Change .env file as per your requirements and export .env.

export $(cat .env | xargs)

• Run project

go run main.go start