GOLF(2gg)

💖 GOLF(2gg) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the Development section of the Golf manual, and no we are NOT skipping the lore, sit down, grab a boba 🧋

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✨ NAME ✨

before-handler — the (service-processing) queen who runs your code before anything else gets handled 👑

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🎯 PURPOSE 🎯

Run your code before a request gets handled. That's it. That's the whole job. It's giving opening act energy 🎤

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📝 SYNTAX 📝

before-handler
...
end-before-handler

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

So here's the tea, fr fr: every single Golf request rolls through a request dispatcher (peep request() for that one), and that dispatcher? Auto-generated. Not your problem. Slay.

Now if you wanna drop your own code in to run before a request gets handled, you make a source file called before-handler.golf and write code that starts with before-handler and ends with end-before-handler. Golf will literally just pick it up on its own and compile it with your application. No wiring, no config, no drama. Obsessed 💖

🫶 heads up bestie: if no request executes — like, say, your app just doesn't handle a given request — then the before-handler handler does not execute either. It's not gonna fire into the void, okay? It knows its moment.

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🌸 EXAMPLES 🌸

Here's a lil baby implementation of the before-handler handler that literally just outputs "Getting Started!!" because sometimes that's all you need 🎀

before-handler
    @Getting Started!!
end-before-handler

iconic. ate. no notes. ✨

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🔍 SEE ALSO 🔍

• Service processing
• after-handler
• before-handler
• begin-handler
• call-handler
• See all documentation

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that's the whole page bestie, go forth and run things before things 💜

Version $VERSION, dated $DATE — and yes, GOLF(2gg), the one and only 🦋✨