Cart Service

Cart Service is a microservice for managing shopping carts in an online store. The project is built on Go using Redis for data storage and caching.

Main Features

• Add products to the cart.
• Remove products from the cart.
• Update product quantity in the cart.
• View the contents of the cart.
• Clear the cart.
• Caching cart data using Redis.

Requirements:

• Golang 1.23+
• Docker & Docker Compose
• Redis (runs in a Docker container)

Setup Instructions

Clone the repository and set up the environment:

git clone https://github.com/NIC-Golang/cart-service.git
cd cart-service
cp .env.example .env

Available Makefile Commands:

make help       # Show available commands  
make install    # Install dependencies (go mod tidy)  
make run        # Run the server  
make stop       # Stop the server  
make restart    # Restart the server  
make compile    # Compile the application  
make clean      # Clean the build cache  
make test       # Run the test container (docker compose -f docker-compose.test.yml up -d)  
make build      # Build the docker container  
make up         # Run the docker container  
make down       # Stop the docker container

Running the service:

Make sure Docker Engine is running, then execute:

docker compose build
docker compose up

To stop the service:

docker compose down

If you are using an older Docker version, use docker-compose instead of docker compose.