dsa0x / go-social-network

A small social network created with golang, gorilla/mux and gorm

Chipper :: go-social-network

Introduction

This is a mini social network created with golang, gorilla/mux and gorm. I built this to get more familiar with the Go language. I also decided to use go template just to get familiar with them. I'll probably go with rest apis for future projects. I intend to do some refactoring later on, but the functionalities are currently working. Feel free to fork it or make some suggestions to the current implementation. Inspiration gotten from yTakkar's . The website is live at https://chipper.daredev.xyz

Requirements

Go - from v1.2

PostgreSQL - from v10

Setup

• Before setup, you must have PostgreSQL on your machine. Then clone this repository

  https://github.com/dsa0x/go-social-network.git

• cd into the project directory

  cd go-social-network

• Set environment variables

  • A sample is presented in the repository.

  cp .env.example .env

• Run application

  go run main.go

Usage

Endpoint	Usage
/	The Home page. It also lists the posts of all users
/signup	Use this route to sign up a new user
/login	Authenticate user to access protected endpoints
/user/{id}	The User profile. Also showing the number of posts, followers, and followings of the user
/logout	Logout the user
/user/follow	To follow a user
/user/unfollow	To unfollow a user
/users	Displays a list of all users
/post/create	To create a new post
/post/{id}/update	status.NotYetImplemented