Kemal REST API

Simple REST API example with Kemal micro web framework, in CRUD use cases.

Features

• Crecto, Database wrapper and ORM for Crystal.
• Micrate, database migration tool for Crystal.
• Database use PostgreSQL.
• Test specs example.

Endpoints

Build and run on local

Install Crystal language.

# Clone the project
git clone https://github.com/mkdika/kemal-rest-api.git
cd kemal-rest-api/

# Install related dependencies
shards install

# create environment variable, you can adjust your db connection string
export DB_URL='postgres://postgres:postgres@localhost:5432/kemal_rest_api'

# Run db setup (create db & run migrations)
crystal run src/util/db_setup.cr

# Run all test specs
crystal spec

# Build binary
shards build --production --release

# run the app
./bin/server
# output: [development] Kemal is ready to lead at http://0.0.0.0:3000

# Optionally, run kemal in `production` environmen & custom port
KEMAL_ENV=production ./bin/server 80
# output: [production] Kemal is ready to lead at http://0.0.0.0:80

Contributing

1. Fork it (https://github.com/mkdika/kemal-rest-api/fork)
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request

Contributors

• Maikel Chandika - creator and maintainer

Copyright and License

Copyright 2020 Maikel Chandika (mkdika@gmail.com). Code released under the MIT License. See LICENSE file.