Project to practice and familiarise with Golang and the Gin Web Framework. Also implementing Server-sent-events.

• Go
• Docker

First of all, start the database by running:

docker compose up -d

Then, run the following commands to start the Go app:

cd app/
cp .env.example .env
go get .
go run .

In the app directory, run one of these commands to populate the database:

    go run seeds/*

Or

    make seeds

This will create two user accounts:

You can use Swagger to display and try all available routes, along with the corresponding parameters and response format. The url should be http://localhost:3000/swagger/index.html unless you've changed the default port or you set the GIN_MODE to "release".

The library used to do this is gin-swagger.

Note: to update swagger you'll have to run in /app swag init.