Twitter Proxy (GoLang)

Brief Description

This project was created to help me better understand Go language. It is a simple server proxying the twitter API with 2 endpoints;

Get tweets by username

GET http://localhost:3000/tweets/{username}

Get top 10 tweets by username

GET http://localhost:3000/tweets/{username}/top-monthly

Running the App

go install

go run main.go

Time to Complete

In total ~1.5 Days

Pacakges

Module	Why?
github.com/dghubble/go-twitter/twitter	The twitter package exposes a `Client` that helps simplify working with the twitter API
github.com/dghubble/oauth1	The oauth1 is a package that exposes a `http.Client` that helps simplify working with oauth
github.com/gorilla/mux	The mux package is a request router that helps simplify how we handle routing in our server application

Hardest Area

I had difficulties working with the data types, working out how to transform the data into a json format and wrapping my head around responding with raw bytes

Proudest Area

Working out how to handle network requests within Go working with query params and routing.