MarCom-Backend

MarCom-Frontend is a repository containing the Backend (web-server) code for the MarCom project

Implementation & Features

• Implemented with Golang and it's powerful standard library as well as JWT and gRPC

Setup and running the project

Ensure that you have go > 1.22 installed in your system

Clone this repository to local

No need to recurse submodules as a copy of the generated grpc files are attached in the repository and will be updated together with the repository

git clone https://github.com/Hanyue-s-FYP/MarCom-Backend.git

Setup environment variables

Setup environment variables (with reference to .env.example), you can set the environment variables of the system directly or use a file (usually .env or .env.development), if you used .env or .env.development, change the NewConfig to pass in the env file, if you set the environment variables of the system directly, set it to empty string. For mail, try to stick with gmail, you can follow this link: Legacy App Support to obtain email and a password that can be used

Install dependencies

go mod download

Create Database

# macOS/linux
cat create_db.sql | sqlite3 marcom.db
# windows
sqlite3 marcom.db < .\create_db.sql

Compile and run

CGO_ENABLED=1 should be set when running the application

# build and run with temp binary
go run .

Alternatively,

# build a binary and store it to the build folder
go build -o build/MarCom_WebServer .
# Execute the built binary
MarCom_WebServer