Building Web Applications with Go - Udemy

Course

• Course: https://www.udemy.com/course/building-web-applications-with-go-intermediate-level
• Certificate of Completion: https://www.udemy.com/certificate/UC-8dfd1688-edcf-47aa-b5ea-bf12f18329e9/

The Project

• Built an E-commerce application consisting of a front-end, back-end, and a microservice all built using the Go (or Golang) programming language. Used MariaDB as database solution and DBeaver as the database navigator.
• Platform allows customers to buy or subscribe to receive “Widgets” using Stripe Payment Integration
  • Added Virtual Terminal to receive credit card info and charge a user (as if over the phone)
  • Added Checkout to allow customer to buy directly off website or subscribe to a package
• Created Invoice Microservice that emails a PDF invoice after completion of a purchase
• Authentication done via Stateful Tokens and using private routes
• Forgot/Reset Password functionality using email reset link via protected hash in email
• Used MailTrap to create a fake email server / fake inbox
• Created Admin dashboard that displays purchases and subscriptions with pagination/chunking of data and ability to create/delete adminstrative accounts
• Added socket integration to logout “deleted” users automatically

Running the Project

• cd into go-stripe directory
• Run web server

  • go run ./cmd/web

  • air from within directory (live reload - https://github.com/cosmtrek/air)

  • make start or make start_front or make start_back

  • make stop or make stop_front or make stop_back

  • make start_invoice or make stop_invoice to start/stop invoice microservice