Go REST API example

Running the project

• Clone this repository
• Make sure you have go installed, together with c compile tools like gcc
• Open the project directory in your terminal and run: go run main.go
• Start messing around with the API

Creating Users

POST the following data to localhost:8080/users

{
"name": "Mike Chumba",
"email": "email@gmail.com",
"password": "password",
"gender": "Male"
}

Authenticating Users

POST user credentials to localhost:8080/login

{
"email": "email@gmail.com",
"password": "password"
}

You should receive your authentication token.

Using Auth Token

try to GET the localhost:8080/auth route and include the following header:

x-access-token: YOUR_TOKEN_HER