rss-feed-aggregator

This repository contains a service written in GO for RSS(RDF Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication) feed aggregation.

Concepts Covered:

• GO Lang
• Postgres
• Web-Server using CHI
• Thunder Client extension of VSCode

Commands and packages used:

• go mod init
• go mod tidy
• go mod vendor
• go get github.com/go-chi/chi
• go get github.com/go-chi/cors
• go get github.com/google/uuid
• go get github.com/joho/godotenv
• go get github.com/lib/pq

brew install postgresql
brew services start postgresql

• Download PGAdmin client to interact with Postgres Data-base.

• Install sqlc: SQLC is an amazing Go program that generates Go code from SQL queries. It's not exactly an ORM, but rather a tool that makes working with raw SQL almost as easy as using an ORM.

go install github.com/kyleconroy/sqlc/cmd/sqlc@latest

• Configure sqlc:

version: "2"
sql:
  - schema: "sql/schema"
    queries: "sql/queries"
    engine: "postgresql"
    gen:
      go:
        out: "internal/database"

• Write an SQL query to be created as GO method/function: Inside the sql/queries directory, create a file called users.sql. Here is mine:

-- name: CreateUser :one
INSERT INTO users (id, created_at, updated_at, name)
VALUES ($1, $2, $3, $4)
RETURNING *;

$1, $2, $3, and $4 are parameters that we'll be able to pass into the query in our Go code. The :one at the end of the query name tells SQLC that we expect to get back a single row (the created user). Other keywords are :many, :exec(execute with void)

• Run sqlc generate to generate new Go code for your queries.

• Install goose: Goose is a database migration tool written in Go. It runs migrations from the same SQL files that SQLC uses, making the pair of tools a perfect fit.

go install github.com/pressly/goose/v3/cmd/goose@latest

A migration is a SQL file that describes a change to your database schema. For now, we need our first migration to create a users table. The simplest format for these files is:

number_name.sql For example, I created a file in sql/schema called 001_users.sql with the following contents:

-- +goose Up
CREATE TABLE ...

-- +goose Down
DROP TABLE users;

To run the migration:

goose postgres CONN up
ex: goose postgres postgres://<<username>>:<<password>>@<<address>>:<<port>>/<<db-name>> up