Setup

Clone this repository to your local filesystem and open a terminal in that directory.
Install Go and and setup a local PostgreSQL installation and create a DB with User and Password on Postgres.
Give the database credentials in the line 45 of cmd/api/main.go file replacing the credentials in the format given.
Install goose globally to handle DB migrations by using this command go install github.com/pressly/goose/v3/cmd/goose@latest
install air globally to handle hot reload by running the command go install github.com/cosmtrek/air@latest
To run the migrations, first make sure Postgres is running and run the following command in the repo root directory: goose -dir ./migrations postgres 'user={YOUR_USERNAME_FOR_POSTGRES} password={PASSWORD_FOR_POSTGRES} host=localhost dbname={DATABASE_NAME} sslmode=disable' up
To run the application, run the command air in the repo root directory.

Tips

The API routes are defined in the file cmd/api/routes.go file.
To create any new migrations, run the command goose -dir ./migrations postgres 'user={YOUR_USERNAME_FOR_POSTGRES} password={PASSWORD_FOR_POSTGRES} host=localhost dbname={DATABASE_NAME} sslmode=disable' create {your-migration-name} sql

Create an API endpoint for updating the name of the user with the provided email. Remember, only the logged in user must be allowed to change his/her name.
You may need to create a middleware to check whether the user is logged in or not. You can refer to the completed project at https://github.com/donatelloraphael/greenlight if you get stuck. It also provides examples of couple of functionalities like middelwares which we did not talk about in the training session.