novara754 / shortpost

Minimal Twitter clone written in Go. Features user accounts, sessions and a basic timeline with posts.

Shortpost

A minimal twitter clone with user accounts, sessions, and a timeline.

Building & Running

To compile the program simply run go build -o shortpost.out ./shortpost, this will generate an executable with the same name.

In order for the executable to work you need to launch it with proper values in the PORT and POSTGRES_URL environment variables. For example:

$ PORT=8080 \
  POSTGRES_URL="postgres://user:password@localhost:5432/shortpost:?sslmode=disable \
  ./shortpost.out 

The server will then listen on the configured port.

With Docker

You can also easily launch the server along with a Postgres instance using the provided docker-compose.yml. Simply run docker-compose up -d in the project root directory to run the service as a daemon.

By default the webserver can be accessed on port 8080, but this can be configured in the docker-compose.yml file.

License

Licensed under the MIT License.