Covid data API (in GO)

go-covid-api fetches data from GCP firestore as json and serves it through the /data endpoint. This is used for the covid-chart-app which fetches the data and plots cases against date by country.

ENDPOINTS:

GET /data to fetch data as JSON GET /update to update data using firestore

start local server with VS Code debugger - press F5

start local server via command line (pass in env var as cred)

GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS=config/{filename.json} go run covid-api.go

automatic deploy

cloudbuild.yaml configured to deploy automatically when pushing to master branch on github

manual build & deploy

gcloud builds submit --tag gcr.io/sd-covid-2/covid-api

gcloud run deploy --image gcr.io/sd-covid-2/covid-api --platform managed covid-api

Overview

Steps:

py-covid-data-fetch

Python service running on GCP Cloud Run
Fetch CSV data from JHU github
Parses data: last 28 days, sum by country, omit lat/long coords
Loads data into json store (GCP firestore)
Runs once a day through GCP Cloud Scheduler calling endpoint, and calls go-covid-api to update

go-covid-api

Golang service running on GCP Cloud Run
Fetch json data from GCP firestore, and loaded into state through /update
Data served through /data

covid-chart-app

React app running on AWS
Fetches data from go-covid-api
Plots data using Nivo-charts

ho-wan/go-covid-api

Covid data API (in GO)

Overview