Appcrons optimizes the uptime of your free backend instance on Render by sending automated requests, preventing it from shutting down due to inactivity.

Documentation

For full documentation, visit appcrons.netlify.app.

Installation

To install the Appcrons backend repo locally, follow these steps:

Prerequisites

• Ensure you have Golang 1.23 installed. You can download it from go.dev/doc/install.

• Ensure you have Postgresql installed. You can download it from postgresql.org/download.

• Ensure you have Redis installed. You can download it from redis.io.

• Ensure your computer system supports Makefiles . If you are on windows, follow this guide Run Makefile on windows.

Steps

1. Clone the repository:

   https://github.com/Tibz-Dankan/appcrons.git
   
   cd appcrons

2. Install packages:

   make install
   

3. Set up environmental variables:

Variable	Type	Description
APPCRONS_TEST_DSN	string	DSN pointing to test postgres db
APPCRONS_DEV_DSN	string	DSN pointing to development postgres db
APPCRONS_STAG_DSN	string	DSN pointing to staging or CI/CD postgres db
APPCRONS_PROD_DSN	string	DSN pointing to production postgres db
REDIS_URL	string	URL pointing to your redis instance
JWT_SECRET	string	key used to sign JWT tokens

create .env file in the root project directory and add all these variables

Example

APPCRONS_DEV_DSN="host=localhost user=postgres password=<db password> dbname=<db name> port=<db port> sslmode=disable"

4. Start the application:

   make run

5. Run tests in devlopment:

   make test
   

6. Run tests in staging:

   make stage
   

Note: The application server port number is 8080