MyBlog: A MARKDOWN Blog App with a Monolithic Architecture Built with Go

Website

MyBlog

• Username: ianzhang
• Password: testpassword

Language/Framework/Tools/IDE

• Deployment: Docker, Docker Compose, AWS EC2, Nginx
• Language: Go 1.22.3 darwin/amd64
• Backend Framework: Gin v1.10.0
• Frontend Framework: Vue
• Tools/Middlewares/Libraries:
  • RabbitMQ: for decoupling the service layer and api handler
  • Go Testing: for unit tests
  • GORM: ORM library for dealing with databases
  • xid: for token generation
  • bcrypt: for password hashing
• IDE: VSCode

Architecture

Hightlights in this Project

• Deployed the App on AWS EC2 instance with Docker, used Docker Compose for orchestration
• Applied RabbitMQ to decouple the API handler and service layer
• Implemented authenticator and authorizor middlewares for authentication and authorization
• Implemented TDD (Test Driven Development) approach and comprehensively performed unit tests for each functionality, improved the robustness of the app
• Designed IoC (Inverse of Control) container to seperate the dependencies between service modules, enhanced scalibility