Installation

• Install Golang.
• Ubuntu users can do sudo apt install golang
• Set the GOPATH variable.
• Open up ~/.bashrc and add the following lines (you can set your own location, this is what I used)

export GOPATH=$HOME/.go
export PATH=$PATH:$GOPATH/bin

• Create a folder called src inside of $GOPATH.
• mkdir $GOPATH/src
• Clone this repo in that folder

cd $GOPATH/src
git clone https://github.com/tkshnwesper/niec.git

• Install the various Golang dependencies

cd $GOPATH/src/niec
go get -u

• Set up a MariaDB/MySql database (I'm assuming you have one of those installed already)
• Execute the queries from the query file
• Ensure that the user who runs the server has access to that database
• Set up a config.json file in at the root level of the project $GOPATH/src/niec/config.json
• It should consist of the following

{
    "DB": {
        "Name": "name_of_the_database",
        "User": "database_username",
        "Password": "database_password"
    },
    "SMTP": {
        "Host": "host_address",
        "Port": host_port_number,
        "Username": "username",
        "Password": "password",
        "FromAlias": "from_alias"
    }
}

• Set up a static folder in the project root and install the frontend libraries

mkdir $GOPATH/src/niec/static
cd $GOPATH/src/niec/static

• I hope you have bower. No problem even if you don't. Do npm i -g bower. You might need to prepend sudo.
• bower install the following inside the static folder

1. jquery
2. bootstrap
3. Also highlight.js, but you can skip that for now.

• We are done! cd to the project root directory and do go clean; go install; niec to start the server.