hackernews

A project to learn integration of go with gqlgen

A Hackernews clone with Go, GraphQL and JWT.

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/hackernewsJwt
cd hackernewsJwt
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/

• Create 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