Welcome

What are we building?

We're going to build an RSS feed aggregator in Go! It's a web server that allows clients to:

Add RSS feeds to be collected
Follow and unfollow RSS feeds that other users have added
Fetch all of the latest posts from the RSS feeds they follow

RSS feeds are a way for websites to publish updates to their content. You can use this project to keep up with your favorite blogs, news sites, podcasts, and more!

Prerequisites

This project assumes that you've already taken our "Learn Web Servers" course. If you haven't, go take it! It will give you a solid foundation for this project.

Learning goals

Learn how to integrate a Go server with PostgreSQL
Learn about the basics of database migrations
Learn about long-running service workers

Setup

Before we dive into the project, let's make sure you have everything you'll need on your machine.

An editor. I use VS code, you can use whatever you like.
A command line. I work on Mac OS/Linux, so instructions will be in Bash. I recommend WSL 2 if you're on Windows so you can still use Linux commands.
The latest Go toolchain.
If you're in VS Code, I recommend the official Go extension.
An HTTP client. I use Thunder Client, but you can use whatever you like.

If you're ready, move on to the next step!