tghastings/blog repository overview

⁠Hastings Blog

Hastings Blog is a lightweight blogging platform that provides a RESTful API which serves JSON and utilizes CRUD functions to manipulate data in SQL databases for posts and users. The platform leverages JSON Web Tokens for authentication and bcrypt to protect sensitive data for persistent data storage.

⁠Features

• Postgres, MySQL, SQLite and Foundation database support
• CRUD functions for users and posts
• User authentication using JWTs and bcrypt with salt for secure password storage

⁠Motivation

This is my first project built with golang. I've worked on this project for a little over 3 days and building a blogging platform is usually the first project I make with a new language.

⁠Road Map

• API which allows CRUD for user management, posts, and user authentication
• Automated API testing
• Swagger API documentation
• Javascript front-end for readers to read posts
• Javascript front-end for authors to manage users and posts

⁠Usage

There are two ways to start the blog platform. The first is to download the binary and the second is to clone the repository, build, and run.

⁠From Binary

Download the binary Download⁠

Run ./blog

⁠From Source

Clone the repo git clone [email protected]:tghastings/blog.git

cd blog

go build

./blog

⁠Default Username and Password

username: root Password: 12345

⁠View the API Documentation⁠

The API is documented using Swagger. View the API Documentation⁠.

⁠Licence

This project is released under the MIT licence. See LICENCE⁠ for more details.