schiller-sql / littSQL

LittSQL, learn sql and try it out at the same time

littSQL

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1. Setup the database

If PostgreSQL is not installed on your system, make sure to install it from here and make sure it runs.

Now run the init.sql file inside of your PostgreSQL database, to create all needed schemas, tables, and stored procedures.

2. Setup backend

First make sure that the go cli is installed, by running where go, if it tells you that go has not been found, install go from here.

In the backend folder, now run go get to install the go dependecies needed for the project.

After that create a .env file in the backend directory, to configure the backend with the PostgreSQL credentials. Below is a sample .env with important key-value pairs and their respective defaults:

PG_HOST="127.0.0.1"
PG_NAME="postgres"
PG_USER=""
PG_PASSWORD="postgres"

To use the default of a key, you can omit that key-value pair. If PostgreSQL has been installed without much configuration, you probably only need to configure the PGUSER key with your home directory name.

Now in the backend directory run go run test_db/test_db.go and watch the console for errors if postgres has not been configured correctly, to adjust configurations and rerun until it works.

3. Setup frontend

First make sure that the nodejs cli is installed, by running where npm, if it tells you that npm has not been found, install nodejs from here.

In the backend folder, now run go get to install the go dependecies needed for the project.

To install the dependencies needed, run npm install in the frontend directory.

4. Run the project (development)

First run the backend project from the backend directory with go run main.go.

Then run the frontend project from the frontend directory with npm run dev.

5. More configurations

6. Run the project (production)