go-social-media-backend

A social media backend built using Go

Technologies used

• Go standard library
• Chi router
• PostgreSQL database
• BCrypt
• Docker
• JWT tokens

Features include

• User signup and login
• Creating, deleting and updating posts
• Liking and unliking posts
• Following and unfollowing other users
• Commenting and deleting comments
• Viewing a user's profile (number of posts, followers, following)
• Liking and unliking comments
• CRUD endpoints for users, posts, following, likes
• Certain actions require authorization to perform: For example:
  • A user has to be the author of a post to delete or update it.
  • Users have to create an account before they can like or comment on a post.

Local setup

git clone https://github.com/codewithed/go-social-media-backend.git
cd go-social-media backend

Prerequisites

• Docker

Setup Postgres Database

make postgres

Build command

make build

Run command

make run