Golang Store API

Production-ready E-commerce backend, REST API in Go using JWT authentication & MySQL.

API documentation

For auth guarded endpoints, you have to hit the /login endpoint and retrieve the JWT token.

Then, you can use that token string and place it as a query param ?token= or in the Authorization header.

Auth

Method	Endpoint	Description	Request Body	Response	Authentication
POST	/login	Logs in a user and returns a JWT.	Email and password	200 OK / 400 Bad Request	No
POST	/register	Registers a new user.	First name, last name, email, password	201 Created / 400 Bad Request	No

Users

Method	Endpoint	Description	Request Body	Response	Authentication
GET	/users	Retrieves a list of all users.	N/A	200 OK / 500 Internal Server Error	Yes
GET	/users/{id}	Retrieves a user by their ID.	User ID	200 OK / 400 Bad Request / 500 Internal Server Error	Yes

Products

Method	Endpoint	Description	Request Body	Response	Authentication
GET	/products	Retrieves a list of all products.	N/A	200 OK / 500 Internal Server Error	No
GET	/products/{id}	Retrieves a product by its ID.	Product ID	200 OK / 400 Bad Request / 404 Not Found / 500 Internal Server Error	No
POST	/products	Creates a new product (Admin only).	Name, description, price, and other product details	201 Created / 400 Bad Request / 500 Internal Server Error	Yes

Cart/Orders

Method	Endpoint	Description	Request Body	Response	Authentication
POST	/cart/checkout	Checks out the user's cart and creates an order.	List of product items in the cart	200 OK / 400 Bad Request / 500 Internal Server Error	Yes

Getting started

Running locally

Make sure to have Go 1.22+, MySQL and Make installed.

Steps:

1. Create a database named ecommerceDb in MySQL

2. Run make migrate-up to create database tables.

3. Run make run to start the server.

The project requires environment variables to be set. You can find the list of required variables in the .env.template file.

Database migrations

We are using golang-migrate to ease all database migrations.

Create a migration

To create a new database migration, run:

make migration <migration-name>

Then, you can find the create (up) and teardown (down) scripts in /cmd/migrate/migrations.

Applying all database migration

To apply all existing database migrations, run:

make migrate-up

Turning down database migrations

To remove all database migrations, run:

make migrate-down