Cats Social is an app that allows cat owners to match their cats with each other.

Cats Social offers the following features:

• Authentication:

• User registration

• User login

• Cat Management (CRUD):

• Create new cat profiles

• View existing cat profiles

• Update cat profiles

• Delete cat profiles

• Matching:

• Match your cat with other cats

• View matching cats

• Approve or reject matches

• Delete matches

Before running this app make sure you have this installed on your puter :

• Golang 1.22.0

• PostgreSQL

• golang-migrate

To run the application, follow these steps before run the program:

1. Make sure you have Golang, PostgreSQL, and Golang Migrate installed and configured on your system.

2. Clone this repository:

git clone https://github.com/sedelinggam/cats-social.git

3. Navigate to the project directory:

cd cats-social

4. Run the following command to install dependencies:

go mod download

5. Run the following command to create environment for the application:

mv .env.sample .env

1. Setting Up Environment Variables

Before starting the application, you need to set up the following environment variables:

• DB_NAME: Name of your PostgreSQL database

• DB_PORT: Port of your PostgreSQL database (default: 5432)

• DB_HOST: Hostname or IP address of your PostgreSQL server

• DB_USERNAME: Username for your PostgreSQL database

• DB_PASSWORD: Password for your PostgreSQL database

• DB_PARAMS: Additional connection parameters for PostgreSQL (e.g., sslmode=disabled)

• JWT_SECRET: Secret key used for generating JSON Web Tokens (JWT)

• BCRYPT_SALT: Salt for password hashing (use a higher value than 8 in production!)

2. Database Migrations

• Apply migrations to the database:

make migrate-dev

3. Running the Application

make run

You can access the application in your web browser at http://localhost:8080