guestbook

Guestbook

stand-alone, single binary guestbook application in Go with PostgreSQL as its backend storage.

Usage

For this application to work you need to pass the information (credentials, location, etc.) to connect to PostgreSQL using the postgres flag. See the example below:

$ ./guestbook -postgres="postgres://user:pass@host/dbname?sslmode=disable"

For the full list of options for the connection string see the libpq official documentation.

The application will be ready and listening on port 8080.

Building

• For OSX:

  $ make build-osx
  

• For Linux:

  $ make build-osx
  

These tasks will create binary files for the mentioned platforms. Find the artifacts under dist/.

Developing

Running Postgres

We run Postgres in a Docker container with little customisation. The only thing we customise is the password which is foobar.

Run the container with

$ make pg

If you want to connect to the database using the psql tool, simply

$ make pg-client

Running the guestbook

There is a make task for that!

$ make run