AdviseU backend

Notes on the backend.

Dependencies:

go install github.com/air-verse/air@latest
go get go.mongodb.org/mongo-driver/mongo
go get github.com/joho/godotenv

Run the server with automatic restarts whenever Go files are changed:

air

Database:

MongoDB Atlas is being used to host the cloud databse.

To access this database, create a .env file containing your MongoDB credentials which start with mongodb+srv://: MONGO_DB_ATLAS_CREDENTIALS.

(Unless department field is added to catalog JSONs in scraping phase) Run python add_department_field_to_catalogs.py.

(Unless term offerings data is reformatted elsewhere) Run python reformat_term_offerings.py.

To insert/update catalog documents in the database, run upload_catalogs_to_mongo_db.sh.

To insert/update term offering documents in the database, run upload_term_offerings_to_mongo_db.sh.