This project was an exercise to construct a full stack app using Go as a backend, MongoDB as the datastore and AngularJS as the frontend.
This project assumes you have Go, Node and Docker setup on your machine. If you don't please install them and set them up before getting started.
When cloning make sure to clone to $GOPATH/github.com/dannyrfar/go-api on your local machine.
To install project dependencies run npm run getdeps from the root of the project folder.
Before running locally install and start the mongo daemon. Set the MONGODB_URL locally using export MONGODB_URL=mongodb://localhost:27017.
To start run npm start then point your browser to http://localhost:4200.
To run the project while listening for file changes run npm run start-dev and point your browser to http://localhost:4200. Any file changes detected will trigger a recompile of either the Go or Angular code.
To run inside a docker container build the docker container using docker build . -t go-reminders then once complete start the mongodb instance using docker run --name mongo --rm -d mongo. There is no need to install anything for mongo to run, that command is enough. Once mongo is up start the service using docker run -it --link mongo:go-reminders -e "MONGODB_URL=mongodb://mongo:27017" -p 3000:3000 --rm go-reminders. Finally point your browser to http://localhost:3000.
To compile the codebase to a final binary that is ready to be shipped, run npm run compile. The output is located in assets/ and the go binary is called go-server.