Introduction

The backend application of scrumlr.io targeted by the web client is written in go. Before contributing to the project, please make sure you have read the contributing guideline.

Recommended Requirements

• Docker
• Docker compose

Quick start

Before you can run the Scrumlr backend locally for development, you first need the following services to be running

• a postgres database
• a nats instance

For that you can use the provided docker compose files. To start the docker containers either run

make run-docker-dev

or

docker compose --profile dev up

After the container started, you can start the Scrumlr backend with.

cd src/
go run . --database "postgres://admin:supersecret@localhost:5432/scrumlr?sslmode=disable" --disable-check-origin --insecure

Please make sure to read the guidelines for the backend.

Testing

To run the tests locally run

make test

For more information about the tests refer to the testing documentation.

Architecture

In the picture below is a high level overview of how Scrumlr works

For a detailed overview of the backend read the architecture documentation.