Microbank

A minimalist implementation of a banking server, exposing endpoints for the following purposes:

• creating a banking customer
• creating an account for a particular customer using one of the accepted currencies
• transfering money between customer accounts
• retrieving all accounts created by the customer in the current session
• retrieving one account created by the customer in the current session

Read NOTE.md for detailed information about this project

Run Microbank

You can run Microbank in several different ways:

1. Docker Compose - (The easiest)

• Download Docker
• Clone this repository
• Comment out the environment variables for localhost and uncomment the ones for docker compose environment in app.env
• Start services

docker compose up

2. Localhost (Macbook) - (Requires more installations on your machine)

Microbank implements HTTP, gRPC Gateway and gRPC servers

gRPC Gateway server serves both HTTP and gRPC requests

Pre-requisites

1. Homebrew
2. PostgreSQL. Follow the download instructions on the download section of the Postgres App install page
3. Go
4. golang-migrate. Run brew install golang-migrate
5. gow or go watch
6. Install redis

Run HTTP server

• Ensure these lines of code are commented out in the main function

go runGatewayServer(config, store)
runGrpcServer(config, store)

• Comment out the environment variables for docker environment and uncomment the ones for localhost in app.env file.

• Download all dependencies

 go mod download

• Start postgresql server

• Start server

make server

• Query the endpoints using the microbank.rest.http file or any rest client out there

Run gRPC Gateway server

• Ensure this line of code is commented out in the main function

runGinServer(config, store)

• Ensure these lines of code are uncommented in the main function

go runGatewayServer(config, store)
runGrpcServer(config, store)

• Comment out the environment variables for docker environment and uncomment the ones for localhost in app.env

• Download all dependencies

go mod download

• Start postgresql server

• Start server

make server

• Query the endpoints using the microbank.gateway.http file or any rest client out there

Run only gRPC server

• Ensure these lines of code are commented out in the main function

runGinServer(config, store)
go runGatewayServer(config, store)

• Ensure this line of code is uncommented in the main function

runGrpcServer(config, store)

• Download the evans gRPC client on your machine
• Run the command

make evans