hackerbook

README

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Initial setup

• Make sure you have a working go environment of version 1.11 or higher:
  • To do this you can follow this guide
• Download go dep
• Do "go get -u gitlab.com/avokadoen/hackerbook/..."
• Run dep ensure in root of repo directory
• Fill the values of the .envtmpl to your db information. we used mlab, but you could host a local mongodb for local hosting
• For Captcha to work on registration page, you have to register on Google's reCaptcha admin page, and update to your public data-sitekey in the signup.html (as this is not done through environment for now)

How to host locally:

• After doing the initial setup do "go run ./cmd/forum/" in root folder

How to host on heroku:

• Make sure you have the heroku CLI set up by following this guide
• With a working CLI you can run "heroku create"
• For each variable in your .env file you have to do "heroku config:set variablename=value". For more information follow this guide
• Then do "git push heroku master"
• If all your variable are defined correctly according to your mongodb then you can run "heroku open"

Running application

Feel free to go to our heroku hosted application at: https://hackerbook.herokuapp.com/

documentation

You can visit godoc to read our documentation