pronouns.cc

A work-in-progress site to share your names, pronouns, and other preferred terms.

Stack

• API server is written in Go with the chi router
• Persistent data is stored in PostgreSQL
• Temporary data is stored in Redis
• The frontend is written in TypeScript with Svelte, using SvelteKit for server-side rendering
• Avatars are stored in S3-compatible storage (MinIO for development)

Development

When working on the frontend, run the API and then use pnpm dev in frontend/ for hot reloading.

Note that the Vite dev server assumes that the backend listens on :8080 and MinIO listens on :9000. If these ports differ on your development environment, you must edit vite.config.ts.

Development

Requirements:

• Go 1.18 or later
• PostgreSQL (any currently supported version should work)
• Redis 6.0 or later
• Node.js (latest version)
• MinIO if using avatars, flags, or data exports (not required otherwise)
• Air for live reloading the backend

Setup

1. Create a PostgreSQL user and database (the user should own the database). For example: create user pronouns with password 'password'; create database pronouns with owner pronouns;
2. Copy .env.example in the repository root to a new file named .env and fill out the required options.
3. Copy ./frontend/.env.example to ./frontend/env and fill out the required options (PUBLIC_BASE_URL), instead of using localhost use 127.0.0.1.
4. Run go run -v . database migrate to initialize the database, then optionally go run -v . database seed to insert a test user.
5. Run pnpm dev. Alternatively, if you don't want the backend to live reload, run go run -v . web, then change to the frontend/ directory and run pnpm dev.

See docs/production.md for more information about keys in the backend and frontend .env files.

Seeding

To seed the database with some data, create a seed.yaml file, then use go run -v . database seed. For the file format, refer to the Seed struct in scripts/seeddb.

License

Copyright (C) 2022  Sam <u1f320>

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published
by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
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You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.