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 React, using Next 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 yarn dev in frontend/ for hot reloading.

Building

Run make backend to build the API server, then run yarn build in frontend/.

Running

Both the backend and frontend are expected to run behind a reverse proxy such as Caddy.

The frontend should serve every possible path except anything starting with /api/, which should be routed to the backend instead. Make sure to rewrite requests going to the API server to remove the starting /api/.

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 testing uploads (not required otherwise)

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. Create a .env file in the repository root containing at least HMAC_KEY, DATABASE_URL, REDIS, PORT, and MINIO_ENDPOINT keys. (See below for an example)
3. Run make migrate to initialize the database, then optionally make seeddb to insert a test user.
4. Run go run -v ./backend to run the backend.
5. Create frontend/.env with the following content: API_BASE=http://localhost:8080
6. cd into the frontend directory and run yarn dev to run the frontend.

# Example env file
HMAC_KEY="`go run -v ./scripts/genkey`"
DATABASE_URL=postgresql://<username>:<pass>@localhost/<database> # PostgreSQL database URL
REDIS=localhost:6379
PORT=8080 # Port the API will listen on. Default is 8080, this is also default for the backend.
MINIO_ENDPOINT=localhost:9000 # This always needs to be set, it *does not* need to point to a MinIO server.

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
GNU Affero General Public License for more details.

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/>.