Apparently for 2 weeks (yes 2 whole fucking weeks) I was using NamedExec wrong instead of MustExec so inserts haven't worked since then. Other than that, this is a more cleaned up MVC style setup than before.

api/tools.go

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+package api
+
+import (
+  "log"
+  "github.com/gofiber/fiber/v2"
+   "github.com/go-playground/validator/v10"
+ )
+
+type Failure struct {
+	Message string `json:"message"`
+}
+
+func IfErrNil(err error, c *fiber.Ctx) error {
+	if err != nil {
+		log.Output(10, err.Error())
+		c.SendStatus(fiber.StatusInternalServerError)
+		return c.JSON(Failure{err.Error()})
+	}
+
+	return err
+}
+
+func ReceivePost[T any](c *fiber.Ctx) (*T, error) {
+  var result *T
+  result = new(T)
+
+  if err := c.BodyParser(result); err != nil {
+    log.Println(err);
+    return result, err
+  }
+
+  var validate *validator.Validate
+  validate = validator.New(validator.WithRequiredStructEnabled())
+
+  if err := validate.Struct(result); err != nil {
+    validationErrors := err.(validator.ValidationErrors)
+    log.Println(validationErrors)
+    return result, err
+  }
+
+  return result, nil
+}
+