Dev Diaries

Blog API written entirely in Go. This repository contains the backend code written in Go with MySQL as the database.

Steps to run locally

This project uses Infisical as the secrets vault. Create an account for their free cloud service or have a local instance running
You will also need to have a local/remote instance of MySQL up and running
Add the following secrets to Infisical:
- DB_PASSWORD=<your-MySQL-user-password>
- DB_USER=<your-MySQL-username>
- JWT_SECRET=<256-bit-secret>
Add a .env file in the project root with the following variables
- DB_URL=@tcp(<your-db-host>:<your-db-port>)/blog_db?charset=utf8mb4&parseTime=True&loc=Local
- TOKEN_VALIDITY_MINUTES=<duration-of-JWT-Token-in-minutes>
- INFISCAL_SECRET=<infisical-secret>
- INFISCAL_CLIENT_ID=<infisical-client-id>
- INFISCAL_HOST=<infisical-host-url>
- INFISCAL_ENVIRONMENT=<dev/staging/prduction>
- INFISCAL_WORKSPACE_ID=<infisical-workspace-id>
Run go mod download to install all dependencies
Run go run main.go to run the server on PORT 4000

Name		Name	Last commit message	Last commit date
Latest commit History 38 Commits
api		api
database		database
models		models
payload		payload
public		public
secrets_vault		secrets_vault
.gitignore		.gitignore
Dockerfile		Dockerfile
README.md		README.md
go.mod		go.mod
go.sum		go.sum
main.go		main.go
main_test.go		main_test.go