PocketBase can be used as regular Go package that exposes various helpers and hooks to help you implement you own custom business logic.

To get started:

0. Install Go 1.21+

1. Create a new project directory with main.go file inside it. This is what an example PocketBase application looks like:

   package main import ( "log" "os" "github.com/pocketbase/pocketbase" "github.com/pocketbase/pocketbase/apis" "github.com/pocketbase/pocketbase/core" ) func main() { app := pocketbase.New() // serves static files from the provided public dir (if exists) app.OnBeforeServe().Add(func(e *core.ServeEvent) error { e.Router.GET("/*", apis.StaticDirectoryHandler(os.DirFS("./pb_public"), false)) return nil }) if err := app.Start(); err != nil { log.Fatal(err) } }
2. To init the dependencies, run go mod init myapp && go mod tidy.
3. To start the application, run go run main.go serve.
4. To build a statically linked executable, you can run CGO_ENABLED=0 go build and then start the created executable with ./myapp serve.