gernest/aurora

minimalistic social network, with bolt database and Go

aurora

What is aurora?

Aurora is a lightweight social network application written in Go programming language, and using bolt database as its main storage source.

This is not for production use, I started this project as a way to learn more about the Go programming language, and also to experiment with testing web services in Go.

Guide

1. Getting started
   • Overview
   • Installation

Alternative way to build

I was digging in the go standard library, and thought I should experiment on the text/template. I extended it and made a toy yet working build tool(a.k.a template based build tool). The source code is found here zanzibar.

You can build aurora using zanzibar tool. Install it first.

go get github.com/gernest/zanzibar

clone aurora

git clone https://github.com/gernest/aurora

cd into aurora and run zanzibar

cd aurora&&zanzibar

you should find your build in builds directory.

Roadmap

Features

• chat
• profile management
• photo upload
• ??? any ideas?

Scrrenshots

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Contributing

This is a playground, all kinds of contibutions are welcome. Since it is for learning and experimenting, feel free to think of new ideas.

The important thing is to test, whatever you add make sure it has tests. Also be clear on what exactly ypur PR does.

License

This project is under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for the full license text.

aurora's Issues

Changing the error messages to english.

Some error messages seems to be in swahili, this can be confusing to english speakers.