Right to Comment System

A website that lets you search and watch YouTube videos while adding comments(right-to-comment) made with Gin, and a simple API service that handles just the commenting part (rtc-api) made with fiber - both sharing the same database. Note that both applications can be independently run by themselves, they just share same database. The comments are independent from YouTube comments

Project Structure

RTC/
├───right-to-comment/    # Web Application (Gin)
│                       # Complete website with YouTube integration
└───rtc-api/            # REST API Service (Fiber)
│                       # Standalone comments API
└───data/               # Shared SQLite database

Technology Stack Web Application (right-to-comment)

Framework: Gin Web Framework Features:

Complete web interface with HTML templates YouTube video search and embedding YouTube Data API v3 integration Comment system integration Server-side rendered pages

Dependencies:

godotenv for configuration YouTube API client HTML templates Static asset serving

API Service (rtc-api)

Framework: Fiber v2 Features:

RESTful JSON API endpoints Comment CRUD operations Lightweight and fast

Endpoints:

GET /comments/:videoId - Retrieve comments POST /comments/:videoId - Add new comment

Shared Components

Language: Go 1.16+ Database: SQLite3 (shared in root /data directory) Version Control: Git

Service Communication

Web Application (:8080):

Serves HTML pages Handles user interactions Manages YouTube video integration Stores/retrieves comments from shared database

API Service (:3000):

Provides RESTful JSON endpoints Handles comment operations through API calls Accesses same database as web application

Development Setup

Configure the web application: bashCopycd right-to-comment

Add your YouTube API key to .env

Start both services: bashCopy# Terminal 1 - Web Application cd right-to-comment go run main.go

Terminal 2 - API Service

cd rtc-api go run main.go

Access the services:

Web Application: http://localhost:8080 API Endpoints: http://localhost:3000

API Testing Test the API service using curl: bashCopy# Get comments curl http://localhost:3000/comments/VIDEO_ID

Add comment

curl -X POST -F "comment=Your comment" http://localhost:3000/comments/VIDEO_ID

License MIT License