hackernews-clone-api

README

Hackernews Clone GraphQL API

This is the GraphQL API for a hackernews clone. This API is written in Go and uses the graph-gophers set of packages to import the schema and write resolvers for them. This was done as a learning project for teaching myself GraphQL. The web fronted for this, using VueJS and Apollo, can be found here.

Building

Prerequisites

1. Go (obviously)
2. GCC (the sqlite package I used utilizes cgo, so it needs a C compiler)

Building

If you have the prerequisites met just run go build -i with whatever other arguments you wish. (i.e. -o for naming the exe, or -ldflags needed for debugging, etc.) If you need any -ldflags for debugging, you may need to run go build -i once first without it to compile all the dependencies without it, then omit the -i afterwards. Not sure if that's necessary, I know I've run into that with another Go project in the past.

Running

After building steps above, just run the executable generated in the same directory (or whatever directory you specified in the -o argument to go build). The sqlite database will be initialized each time the executable is run. The default login is admin@example.com with the password password.

Feedback

Bear in mind this was done as an exercise for learning GraphQL. Code quality may not be perfect and there will probably be bugs. That being said, in the interest of improving and being a better resource for others, any feedback to any aspect of this is appreciated. Whether that be the code itself or some missed prerequisites or improvements to the build process, etc. If you have any feedback, leave it as an issue on this repo.