over300laughs/goaktify

Welcome Aktify!

Hi! Thanks for taking the time to look over this challenge! I decided to reimplement it with Go and Postgres. Dockerizing the app idiomatically was my fun focus for this project. Routes, if you're looking for them, will be in the aktify.go file in the root. Also handlers is just an idiomatic naming convention for what other languages refer to as controllers in MVC.

Here's the steps to check it out:

1. Clone the repo
2. Then run docker-compose up -d
3. To shut it down run docker-compose down
4. To run the tests in docker use docker-compose -f docker-compose.test.yml up --build --abort-on-container-exit

Note: Unfortunately I didn't have time to fully implement the unit tests in their fullest. However, there is a fair amount of database setup in place. See tests/handlertests/handler_test.go to view the test code.

To view the database you can go to http://localhost:5050 using pgAdmin in a browser as usual.

For convenience here is the database information:

• Host: fullstack-postgres
• User: postgres
• Password: postgres (gasp)
• Database Name: aktify_db_1
• Port: 5432

pgAdmin Credentials:

• u: live@admin.com
• p: password

And here is the curl commands to run:

Create Campaigns

curl --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --request POST \
  --data '{"name":"Aktify Campaign 1","description":"Typical campaign description","isActive":true}' \
  http://localhost:8080/campaigns

Read Campaigns

curl --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --request GET \
  http://localhost:8080/campaigns/1

Delete Campaigns

curl --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --request DELETE \
  http://localhost:8080/campaigns/1

Things I would do different or wish I had time to add:

1. An ORM is nice but not always used in the Go world. I would have tried out GORM
2. I would've used Goose for migrations
3. Added CORS
4. Abstracted routes and tests to work with multiplexer. (mux)
5. Added a .gitignore file

Thanks again for taking the time to look it over!!

-Michael