Dependency injection, example .env, and config handling

config/config.go

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+package config
+
+import (
+	"encoding/json"
+	"flag"
+	"log"
+	"os"
+)
+
+type Configuration struct {
+	Db struct {
+		Ip       string `json:"DbIp"`
+		Port     string `json:"DbPort"`
+		Name     string `json:"DbName"`
+		User     string `json:"DbUser"`
+		Password string `json:"DbPassword"`
+	}
+
+	Listen struct {
+		Ip   string `json:"HttpIp"`
+		Port string `json:"HttpPort"`
+	}
+
+	Template struct {
+		BaseName string `json:"BaseTemplateName"`
+	}
+}
+
+// LoadConfig loads and returns a configuration struct
+func LoadConfig() Configuration {
+	c := flag.String("c", "env.json", "Path to the json configuration file")
+	flag.Parse()
+	file, err := os.Open(*c)
+	if err != nil {
+		log.Fatal("Unable to open config JSON file: ", err)
+	}
+
+	defer file.Close()
+
+	// Decode json config file to Configuration struct named config
+	decoder := json.NewDecoder(file)
+	Config := Configuration{}
+	err = decoder.Decode(&Config)
+	if err != nil {
+		log.Fatal("Unable to decode config JSON file: ", err)
+	}
+
+	return Config
+}