Forum

Forum is a simple discussion forum with a simple interface. Users can create topics, give them categories, reply to topics, and upvote or downvote topics.

Backend

We use Golang as our backend language. The backend is linked to a Sqlite database in order to store the data and for the users' authentication. The database is useful for storing the users, topics, replies, and votes.

Frontend

We use HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to create the frontend. The frontend is linked to the backend in order to interact with the database.

Authentication

Once the user logs in, they are given a UUID token in a session cookie. This token is used to authenticate the user. The token is stored in the database and is used to authenticate the user. When an user logs out, the token is deleted from the database. When a user is registering, we store is username and hashed password with bcrypt in the database.

Communication

Connected	Create post	Add a comment	Create reply	View topic	View comments
❌	❌	❌	❌	✅	✅
✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅

Like and dislike

Connected	Vote
❌	❌
✅	✅

Filter posts

Connected	By categories	Created Post	Liked Posts
❌	✅	❌	❌
✅	✅	✅	✅

Docker

We use Docker to run the application, we create a Dockerfile in the root directory of the repository.

To create the Docker image, we run the following command:

docker build -t forum-go .

To run the application, we use the following command:

docker run -p 8000:8000 -it forum-go