RequestWatcher

A tool to inspect incoming HTTP requests, like webhooks, quickly and easily.

Features

• Responsive web interface
• Create a new HTTP watcher and a link would be generated
• Inspect incoming requests
• SPA like beheviour

Tech

• Go
  • Chi
  • Templ Components
• PostgreSQL
• SQLC
• HTMX
• Server-Sent Events

What's left to improve

• Install tailwind instead of CDN use
• Fix table overflow for smaller screens
• Make tests
  • Use testcontainers for DB tests
  • Read up on how to test channels for Manager package
• Move packages to internal/ directory
• Consider changing to NoSQL solution for storage
  • We don't have many tables
  • the Headers type is a map[string][]string
  • We only query all requests from one ID and add a request to one ID
  • Filestorage could be cool. Could then be shipped as a standalone Go binary
• Make body formatting pretty
• Develop a CLI using Cobra and Charm

Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Go
• Docker
• Docker Compose
• air (for hot reload)
• sqlc

Copy .env.example file (modify to your own liking)

$ cp .env.example .env

Hot Reload

Hot reloads Go and Templ files using air

$ make dev

Build

Build Go application

$ make build

Start PostgreSQL database

$ make db/up

Migrate SQL schemas

$ make db/migrate

Run

$ make run