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Golang-Backend

Introduction​

This repo contains the Go backend server code which by default runs locally on the port 8080.

https://gowebevaluator.onrender.com/status

Pre-requisites​

Your machine should have golang version 1.17 or above, Npm(or Yarn) and Node.js installed to use it locally.

Setting up the repository locally​

  1. Fork the repo to your account.

  2. Clone your forked repo to your local machine: Replace <YOUR_GITHUB_USERNAME> with your actual GitHub username in the below command. This will clone the code to your local machine.

git clone https://github.com/<YOUR_GITHUB_USERNAME>/gobackend.git (https)

or

git clone git@github.com:<YOUR_GITHUB_USERNAME>/gobackend.git (ssh)
  1. Change directory to gobackend.
cd gobackend
  1. Check the remote of your local repo by:
git remote -v

It should output the following:

origin  https://github.com/<YOUR_GITHUB_USERNAME>/gobackend.git (fetch)
origin  https://github.com/<YOUR_GITHUB_USERNAME>/gobackend.git (push)

or

origin  git@github.com:<YOUR_GITHUB_USERNAME>/gobackend.git (fetch)
origin  git@github.com:<YOUR_GITHUB_USERNAME>/gobackend.git (push)
  1. Add remote upstream by running the below command:
git remote add upstream https://github.com/webevaluator/gobackend.git (https)

or

git remote add upstream git@github.com:webevaluator/gobackend.git (ssh)
  1. Running git remote -v should then print the following:
origin  https://github.com/<username>/gobackend.git (fetch)
origin  https://github.com/<username>/gobackend.git (push)
upstream    https://github.com/webevaluator/gobackend.git (fetch)
upstream    https://github.com/webevaluator/gobackend.git (push)

or

origin  git@github.com:<username>/gobackend.git (fetch)
origin  git@github.com:<username>/gobackend.git (push)
upstream    git@github.com:webevaluator/gobackend.git (fetch)
upstream    git@github.com:webevaluator/gobackend.git (push)

Run locally​

  • For installing dependencies run
go install
npm install -g nodemon
  • For starting the server run:
nodemon --exec go run main.go --signal SIGTERM

It will start the server at localhost:8080. You can check the server status at localhost:8080/status.