ivan-marquez / Golang-Demo

Simple application demonstrating the integration of several popular Go packages

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Golang-Demo

This Golang application consumes a JSON payload from https://www.data.gov/, populates a database and displays the database contents on a web page.

Frameworks used:

• Echo to build the website: https://github.com/labstack/echo
• Resty to retrieve data from Data.gov: https://github.com/go-resty/resty
• Jsonparser to process the data: https://github.com/buger/jsonparser
• GORM to populate the database: https://github.com/jinzhu/gorm

Setup

Create a .env file with the following variables:

POSTGRES_USER=user
POSTGRES_PASSWORD=admin
POSTGRES_DB=renewable_energy
DB_PORT=5432
DB_HOST=db

Run

The app is setup with Docker. Run it with docker-compose:

docker-compose up;

The app will be available in http://localhost:8080/renewables