Meme Fetcher

A website that fetches memes from Reddit, searches through them to match your query and displays them to you.

Installation

• Clone the repository
• Install Go and install the dependencies using go mod download
• Create a .env file in the root of the project from the .env.example file and replace the values with your own
• Run the server using go run ./cmd/api

Tips to develop locally

• Hot reloading (https://templ.guide/commands-and-tools/hot-reload)
• Running tailwind watcher (https://tailwindcss.com/blog/standalone-cli)
• Disable the cache when developing (developer tools -> network -> tick 'disable cache' checkbox)

Technologies Used

• HTMX: Frontend library for making AJAX requests
• Tailwind: For styling
• Go: All of the logic is written in Go, responses are sent back in HTML (using Templ)
• AlpineJS: For minor client side interactivity
• Neon.tech: Cloud Postgres DB

TODO

• Logging is not working correctly, errors are not being printed
• I wanted to add explanation field in the db schema, but it will be costly to do so