An automation targeted simple guestbook web app implemented with Go, MongoDB and Bootstrap, inspired by mthaler/guestbook

The focus of this project is to demonstrate how to implement a simple web app using Go, MongoDB and Bootstrap. Security is not a concern, thus it should not be used on production systems.

To build and run the guestbook web app, MongoDB needs to be installed, see https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/installation/

Note: MongoDB is not included in recent versions of Debian, follow the installation instructions above.

Make sure that mongod is started before running the guestbook web app.

The driver can easily be installed with go get:

$ go get go.mongodb.org/mongo-driver

go get will print a warning that there are no go files. This can be ignored.

Use the following command to run the guestbook web app from the guestbook directory:

$ go run main.go

If the guestbook application can connect to the MongoDB database, it will print a message, otherwise it will print an error message.

Open a browser with the following URL:

http://localhost/guestbook

An empty guestbook should now be shown. New comments can be added by clicking on add comment.

MongoDB includes a shell that can be used to manipulate the database. See the MongoDB documentation for details.

To delete all comments, stop the guestbook web app and do the following

$ mongo
> use guestbook
switched to db guestbook
> db.comments.drop()
true

After starting the guestbook again, an empty guestbook is shown.

The code is based on the guestbook example from the Head First Go book.

BSD 3-Clause License