rammyblog/rent-movie

A simple movie rental application

Rent movie

Introduction

This is a simple movie rental application API built in GO. The objective was to try and learn GO concepts. Apart from the api, it contains a worker that periodically send emails to defaulter every day.

It was built with lot of struggles and love ❤️

Requirements

• Go - v1.20 above
• Postgres - v14 above

Installation

NOTE

• Before the fourth step, you should have created a database for this application
• The supported database is Postgres

• Clone this repo

  git clone https://github.com/rammyblog/rent-movie

• Change directory to project directory

  cd rent-movie

• Copy .env template

  cp .env.example .env

• Add correct database credentials to the .env file, credentials include:

  • PORT: This is the port the application will be served on
  • DB_HOST: This is your database host name/IP address
  • DB_NAME: This is the name of the database created for the application
  • DB_USER: This is your database user
  • DB_PORT: This is your database port
  • DB_PASS: This is your database password if any, it should be left blank if no password is configured (localhost)
  • JWT_SECRET This is for auth.. You can put random string there

• Seed Movies Data

  make seed

• Run application

  make run

  This will serve this application on the port you specified in the .env file.

Usage

The API is documented here 👇👇
https://documenter.getpostman.com/view/15213147/2s9YC1WuHX

Contributors

Contributor Name	Role	Tool	Language(s)
Babatunde Onasanya	Developer	VSCode	Go