go-for-it

Simple web-application with Sign-up, Sign In implementation using session, cookie based authentication built on Go(Golang).

Setting it up

• Setup golang on local (https://golang.org/doc/install)
• Once setup, clone the repo
• Go to clone directory
• Install 3rd party dependencies
  • go get golang.org/x/crypto/bcrypt
  • go get github.com/jinzhu/gorm/dialects/postgres
  • go get github.com/jinzhu/gorm
  • go get github.com/satori/go.uuid
• Run go build. This will generate an executable file with name go-for-it.
• Run the executable
  • Linux/Mac ./go-for-it
  • Windows cmd /K "go-for-it.exe"

Pre-requisite

• PostgreSQL setup on the machine (https://www.postgresql.org/download/)

Features

v1.0

• Sign up page ( with basic server-side validations )
• Sign in page ( with basic server-side validations )
• Logout implementation
• Barebone home page ( to be worked on the next release )
• Cookie & session-based authentication
• Database integration using Gorm ORM with Postgres ( can be used with any other vendor )
• Storage of user and session details in the database and its retrieval at time of login
• Password encryption and verification using bcrypt

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