gilly7 / rest-and-go

a very basic e-commerce website API supporting basic CRUD(CREATE, READ, UPDATE and DELETE) operations and SEARCH on a predefined database of products.

rest-and-go

A basic online store API written to learn Go Programming Language

This API is a pretty basic implementation of an online(e-commerce) store.

• You can perform basic CRUD(CREATE, READ, UPDATE and DELETE) operations
• SEARCH on a predefined database of products
• Only Authenticated users can Add, Update and Delete products from database
• Authentication is based on JWT(JSON web Tokens) Tokens
• API is backed by a predefined Mongo DB database hosted on mLab
• This API also lives on Heroku - https://gruesome-monster-22811.herokuapp.com/

See API Documentation and Usage below on how to use it.

Directory Structure

rest-and-go/
    |- Godeps/             - Contains info about all dependencies of the project
    |- store/              - Contains main API logic files 
        |- controller.go  - Defines methods handling calls at various endpoints
        |- model.go       - User and Product models
        |- repository.go  - Methods interacting with the database
        |- router.go      - Defines routes and endpoints
    |- vendor/             - Dependency packages, necessary for deployment
    |- .gitignore
    |- LICENSE
    |- Procfile             - Procfile for herkou deployment
    |- README.md
    |- dummyData.js         - Script to populate local mongodb with dummy data
    |- main.go              - Entry point of the API
  

Setup

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