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Build a Blog Aggregator in Go

Build an RSS-powered Go backend with a database, background work, and a real API shape.

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What will you learn?

In this guided project you'll practice building a CLI in Go, and you'll use production-ready database tools like PostgreSQL, SQLc, Goose, and psql. This won't just be another CLI utility, but a service that has a long-running service worker that reaches out over the internet to fetch data from remote locations.

Chapter List

1
Config
Build a system for the CLI tool that allows users to get and set configuration values
2
Database
Set up Postgres, Goose and SQLC to allow your CLI application to store and retrieve data.
3
RSS
Build functions that will download and parse data from RSS feeds
4
Following
Add to the multiplayer features of the project by allowing users to follow other RSS feeds
5
Aggregate
Turn your CLI into a long running service that continously aggregates posts from RSS feeds.

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Exausting, but amazing!

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Gianfranco Impedovo

Argentina

Good project for learning Go.

(5/5)
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Cody Milliron

Lexington, NC - United States

Was a hard but fun project!

(5/5)
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Prathamesh Anvekar

India

Found the end more difficult due to generally struggling more but also from the project being imo a more boring experience than all of the previous ones, even the Static Site Generator which was personally more frustrating than enjoyable overall.

(2/5)
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Ethan Flaharty

United States

I finally understand what a schema is and what up / down does. I've always wanted to understand how full-stack applications actually work. and this course definitely did a vast majority of the backend lifting in a way that was very understandable.

(5/5)
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Trindon Woolsey

United States

Really cool project. Learned a lot about command line applications and learned great ways to streamline creating new commands. Really powerful tool for aggregating information and scraping websites for new updates. Would have been really helpful for Servers in Go course.

(5/5)
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Jacob

United States

cool project

(5/5)
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Psyduck Loves Programming

Vietnam

Fun way to practice Go and SQL!

(5/5)
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Jack

Malaysia

This was a great way for me to really get dirty and let my fingers dance lol. Loved it

(5/5)
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Moises Angeles

Providence, Rhode Island

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