Eventgrid

A calendar application built in React and Go which helps in event management

Technologies Used and why:

• Frontend: NextJS

  • Used NextJS as it is built on top of React which enables me to write JSX with support for automatic routing based on folder structure
  • Supports for both server and client side component, hence for more data fetching page I can use server side components and for interactive pages I can use client side page, this enables me to optimise web app based on the actual need.

• Backend: Golang

  • Out of all the programming languages I have worked in implementing concurrency is most intuitive in Go
  • I am the most comfortable in building API's in Go

• Database: Postgres

  • I think the used case required a relational database because of the relationship between events and users which is many to many, it has constructs like JOIN and other things which makes it easier to manage.

• Message Broker: RabbitMQ

  • In terms of message brokers, I am most comfortable with rabbitmq.

Demo Link

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Backend Architecture

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Steps to run the project:

• Update the config file at server/config.yaml and web/.env/.local

• Run make build to bulid the project and run make up to run all backend services and it's dependency

• Go to web folder

  • add .env.local, for reference see `web/.env.local.example
  • install the dependences by running npm i
  • run npm run dev for running the frontend