GoBoard

A message board built in Golang

This project is for Go practicing and guided by Building Go Web Applications and Microservices Using Gin and Test-driven Development of Go Web Applications with Gin then modified by me.

Install Dependency

$ go mod download

Run Database

$ docker-compose up -d

Remember to create a database named GoBoard in the PostgreSQL server

Run

$ go run main.go

Test

$ go test -v tests/

Database

Environments

This Compose file contains the following environment variables:

• POSTGRES_USER the default value is postgres
• POSTGRES_PASSWORD the default value is changeme
• PGADMIN_PORT the default value is 5050
• PGADMIN_DEFAULT_EMAIL the default value is [email protected]
• PGADMIN_DEFAULT_PASSWORD the default value is admin

Access to postgres:

• localhost:5432
• Username: postgres (as a default)
• Password: changeme (as a default)

Access to PgAdmin:

• URL: http://localhost:5050
• Username: [email protected] (as a default)
• Password: admin (as a default)

Add a new server in PgAdmin:

• Host name/address postgres
• Port 5432
• Username as POSTGRES_USER, by default: postgres
• Password as POSTGRES_PASSWORD, by default changeme

TODO:

• Display the list of all articles on the home page
• Display a single article on its own page
• Users register with a username and a password
• Login
• Log out
• Create new articles (logged in users only)
• Use PostgreSQL as database
• Mock GORM DB to test
• Deploy on cloud