EUGINELETHAL/gophercon2024-backend

Backend for 2024 Nairobi Gophers

Nairobi Gophers

Backend API for the upcoming Gophercon to be held in Kenya in 2024 (Date TBA).

The project is monolithic.

Infrastructure

• Docker (Containerization)
• Postgres (Database)
• Liquibase (DB Migration)
• Drone (CI/CD)

Dependencies

• Web Framework: Gin
• Database Client: pgx
• DB Migration: Liquibase
• Logging: Zap
• Test/Mocking: Testify

Features

• User Registration
• User Login
• Ticket Purchase
• Mpesa/Credit Card Integration
• Ticket Generation/Mailing

Project Structure

The project is will use a Clean architecture approach. The project structure is as follows:

• cmd/ - Main applications for this project.
• internal/ - Private application and library code.
  • platform/ - Platform-specific code for interacting with the DB, filesystem, etc
  • app/ - Application specific code.
  • server/ - HTTP server initialisation.
• pkg/ - Library code.
• docs/ - Documentation for the project.
• configs/ - Configuration files.