Go-Panda

Pandoc, wrapped in Go

Cloning this Project

It's better to use go get instead of git clone so that your repo ends up somewhere in the $GOPATH (which is relied on by govendor).

go get github.com/scripted/go-panda

Go-Panda Locally

You can run the server directly.

go run main.go

Compile and Run a la Heroku

go install -v ./...
heroku local

Instead of running go-panda, you can also run the app directly using go-panda.

curl -i localhost:8080
#
# HTTP/1.1 200 OK
# Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
# Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2016 21:53:14 GMT
# Content-Length: 19
#
# {"message":"pong"}

Deploying to Heroku

Create the Heroku app as usual:

heroku create

Add the official heroku/go buildpack as well as the a buildpack for installing custom binaries so we can install Pandoc via .custom_binaries:

heroku buildpacks:add heroku/go
heroku buildpacks:add https://github.com/tonyta/heroku-buildpack-custom-binaries#v1.0.0

That's it. Then just push it to Heroku like normal.

git push heroku master
curl https://go-panda.herokuapp.com
#
# HTTP/1.1 200 OK
# Server: Cowboy
# Connection: keep-alive
# Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
# Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2016 21:51:06 GMT
# Content-Length: 19
# Via: 1.1 vegur
#
# {"message":"pong"}