hackernews

A project to learn integration of go with gqlgen

A Hackernews clone with Go and gqlgen.

The API should be able to handle registration, authentication, submitting links and getting list of links.

Instructions

1. In MySQL db

CREATE DATABASE hackernews;

2. Cli

git clone https://github.com/ellieasager/hackernews
cd hackernews
printf '// +build tools\npackage tools\nimport _ "github.com/99designs/gqlgen"' | gofmt > tools.go
go mod tidy

3. In code: In the file internal/pkg/db/mysql/mysql.go set username and password for the db connection in method InitDB().

4. Cli: make sure to use your username and password when running the command below

migrate -database mysql://root:dbpassword@/hackernews -path internal/pkg/db/migrations/mysql up

5. Cli: go run server.go

6. In your browser go to http://localhost:8080/

• Try creating a user:

mutation {
  createUser(input: {username: "new user", password: "password"}){
    id,
    name
  }
}

• List existing users:

query {
  users {
    id
    name
  }
}

7. If you need to re-generate files, run

go run github.com/99designs/gqlgen generate