robwestbrook/greenlight

Repository created while following the book Let's Go Further by Alex Edwards.

Greenlight

This is my repository created while following the book Let's Go Further by Alex Edwards.

In the book, a movie API is built. I changed this to an event API, which I hope to use as the basis for a calender API and app later.

Using SQLite

The book uses Postgres as the database. This repository, instead, uses Sqlite. There are quite a few modifications and additions made to the book's code to accomodate this change. These are documented within the code.

.env

I am also using the godotenv package for applocation settings. To install this package:

go get github.com/joho/godotenv

Using Migrate CLI

The command-line statements to use for database migration.

To create a migration:

 migrate create -seq -ext=.sql -dir=./migrations <migration name>

To run a migration (use up or down):

migrate -path=./migrations -database=sqlite3://greenlight.db -verbose up

Versioning

The application uses a combination of Git tags and Git commit hashes for versioning. To add a tag using Git:

git tag v<version-number>

The version output will be in this format:

{tag}-{number of additional commits}-g{abbreviated commit hash}