Backend for the Hello Neighbour app started at COVID-19 Global Church Hackathon. The prototype won the hackathon's Community Award.
This prototype (available here) was written in Python/Flask. After the hackathon we decided to switch the API to Go and this repository holds the new code base.
You can use an existing Postgres server as your backend or build and run a Postgres Docker container.
To build and run the container, execute the following:
docker-compose -f docker-compose.dev.yml up -d
You now have a Postgres server available on localhost:5432.
To start up the API, run
go run cmd/helloneighbour.go -config config.dev.yml
This will compile and run the application. To load changes, stop the API (Ctrl-C) and re-run it.
To use a local Postgres server, make a copy of config.dev.yml and adjust the settings in the file
to fit your setup. To compile and run the application, execute
go run cmd/helloneighbour.go -config <your config file>
where <your config file> is the name of your copy of the configuration file.
This software is not yet ready for production deployment.