iJackUA / Good-Old-Twitter-Clone

Golang + React skillup inpired by basic Twitter functionality

Good Old Twitter (almost 🥸) Clone

Educational monorepo project with Golang/Buffalo server and TypeScript/React client. With Twitter-inspired functionality.

First run in dev mode

• Install Golang 1.21+
• Install Buffalo CLI go install github.com/gobuffalo/cli/cmd/buffalo@v0.18.14
• cd server - setup server app
  • Make sure PostgreSQL is running
  • cp .env.example .env (check and modify if needed values from example env file)
  • Create DB buffalo pop create -a (check server/database.yml values)
• cd client - setup client
  • npm i
• cd ../ - go to project root folder
• Install Overmind https://github.com/DarthSim/overmind#installation to run Procfiles
• Run all services overmind s
• Check services are working
  • http://localhost:3000 - server API
  • http://localhost:5000 - client frontend

Local testing of Github Action workflows

• Install Act tool
• run in the project toot folder
  • act -l - list all workflows
  • act push - emulate push event, run corresponding workflows
  • act -j test -W .github/workflows/server-test.yml - run specific job in the specific file