SoundSphere

SoundSphere is a simple web forum where music aficionados can discuss anything music-related! For instance, users can discuss a new album release, a concert in the area, or simply song recommendations.

🌟 Key Features

1. Create your profile and become part of the community
2. Create, edit, and delete your own discussion threads and comments
3. Upvote threads that resonate (pun intended!) with you
4. Sort, filter, and search discussion threads

🛠️ Technologies Used

Frontend

• React: Provides the structure for building the user interface
• Redux: Manages global application state, particularly for user authentication and thread data
• Material UI: Provides UI components for a consistent and responsive design

Backend

• Go: Serves as a performant backend language
• Go-Chi: Handles HTTP routing and middleware for building RESTful APIs
• Gorm: Simplifies database interactions with an Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) for PostgreSQL
• Golang-jwt: Implements account-based authentication using JSON Web Tokens (JWT)

Database

• PostgreSQL: Stores application data

🧑🏽‍💻 Usage

Requirements

• Git
• Docker Compose

Setup

1. Clone this repository: git clone https://github.com/Zhannyhong/SoundSphere.git
2. Change directory into the cloned repository: cd SoundSphere
3. Build and run the docker containers: docker compose up -d

The forum can then be viewed at http://localhost:3000. By default, the database will be populated with data from database/database.sql. The users already in the database can be logged in using the same password as their username.