Sapphire-backend

Golang backend for a social media application.

Key features

• Clean Architecture: organized with layers (HTTP handler -> service -> store)
• Redis caching
• Automated API documentation with Swagger
• Email notification to new users confirm account creation
• Integration and unit tests with Testcontainers
• Rate limiter to protect the application from excessive requests

Technologies used

• Postgres for database
• Redis for caching
• Chi for routing
• JWT for authentication
• Swagger for API documentation
• Zap for logging
• Go-mail for e-mail sending
• Testify for mocks and unit tests
• Testcontainers for unit and integration tests

Dependencies

To run this application locally you need to have:

• Docker
• Air: go live-reloading tool

Running

• Start database:

docker compose up --build

• Seed the database:

go run cmd/seed/main.go

• Start application with air (need to be installed as a CLI)

air

Docs

After the application starts, the documentation is available at /v1/swagger/index.html