Test a Golang API on the web

aimar

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May 27, 2019, 2:01:38 PM5/27/19

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Hi,

My teacher has asked me to develop an API with Golang and test it on the web instead of localhost. I was thinking of github.io but then I figured out, it doesn't support server-side languages and just support static pages. Would you please let me know, if there is any platform which I can test my API online rather than localhost? (for free, of course)
It is worth to mention my API generally generates just a couple of strings from a JSON file, thus it does not need a database.

thanks,

Aimar

Jan Mercl

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May 27, 2019, 2:04:51 PM5/27/19

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On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 8:01 PM aimar <amir.dor...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Would you please let me know, if there is any platform which I can test my API online rather than localhost? (for free, of course)

GCP free tier?

mh cbon

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May 27, 2019, 2:41:12 PM5/27/19

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https://2019.www.torproject.org/docs/tor-onion-service.html.en

free, no cc required.

Agniva De Sarker

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May 28, 2019, 8:54:45 AM5/28/19

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I think the Heroku free tier is a great tool for this.

Michael Banzon

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May 29, 2019, 4:31:41 PM5/29/19

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You could look at Heroku. It should be pretty easy to get started with.

You could also find a coupon code for Digital Ocean and fire up a server on your own.

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Leonel Quinteros

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May 30, 2019, 10:15:11 AM5/30/19

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Amazon Web Services will give you the smallest instance of a virtual machine for free (at least for a year): https://aws.amazon.com/en/free

On Google Cloud Platform you can also have several services for free (forever) including a VM instance and an AppEngine deploy: https://cloud.google.com/free/