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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 you'll learn in this Go course

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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Great project! learned new tools such as Goose and SQLC

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Coder Python

United Kingdom

Definitely one of the harder courses/projects on here, theres not much hand holding what so ever so you really have to think a lot more and dive more into documentation (or talk to your favorite friend boots more), super fun and challenging!

(5/5)
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Andre

Philadelphia, PA

This project was very instructive not only for go but in learning how CLI projects can be (should be?) put together.

(5/5)
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Jeremy Cribb

United States

fun and challenging

(5/5)
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mansur eh

Morocco

fun

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Rohit Rajvanshi

India

Had fun learning.

(5/5)
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Juan Torres

Chicago

At first, the course seemed small and not particularly interesting, but as I got further into it, it became surprisingly engaging. It silently covers important architectural concepts, gives a bit of HTTP and a good amount of SQL. And the fact that it's all around good old RSS made the whole experience feel comfortable and meaningful. I really enjoyed progressing slowly, asking Boots questions, and exploring the Go standard library docs.

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Rust Sharp

WA, USA

Build an actual thing that can be used! Great stuff.

(5/5)
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Paul

Germany

good

(4/5)
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Dev Kumar Pal

India

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