BOOKINGS AND RESERVATIONS

A Web Application for making Room reservations in a Bed and Breakfast lodging establishment that offers overnight accommodation and breadkfast

A Fullstack Application build with Go

This is a fullstack application. I am working on this project with the purpose of gaining in-depth understanding of the Go Programing language

About the Stack

The application is fullstack built with Golang

Topics Covered in this project

• The syntax of Go language
• Writing tests in Go
• Creating HTML pages using HTML5
• Writing Javascript for the browser without JQuery
• Cascading Style Sheets
• Building modern, secure web applications
• How to correctly organize the codebase in a Go application
• How to connect to a database in Go
• Managing sessions in Go
• Go middlewares
• 3rd party packages with Go Modules
• How to implement secure user authentication in Go
• Best practices for security in web applications
• How to deploy a Go web application to a live server

How to test locally

• Clone the repo
• Cd into the project root directro

  cd bookings

• Instal the required packages with

  go mod tidy

• Ensure you've created a db named bookings
• Use the following command to create and seed the tables

  ./scripts/db-reset.sh

• To start the app, run the command

  ./scripts/start.sh

• To access the app, visit the browser on localhost:8080
• Use the following cmmands to run the autmated tests

  go test (Runs the test)
  go test -v (Runs the test in verbose mode)
  go test -cover (Run test, show coverage in terminal)
  go test -coverprofile=coverage.out && go tool cover -html=coverage.out (Run test, show coverage in browser)

Deployment

N/A yet

Authors

chingsley

Acknowledgements

• Trevor Sawler
• Udemy

Resources and Packages

• Built in Go version 1.15
• Uses the chi router
• Uses alex edwards scs session management
• Uses nosurf