# siteviewcounter
[](https://drone.deadbeef.codes/steven/siteviewcounter)
A simple view counter for a website
### Requirements
* Go
* Docker
* Docker Compose (Optional) or Kubernetes (Optional)
### Build Application
```bash
go build -a -ldflags '-w'
```
### Build Container
Disclaimer! If you use this, you'll need to build the container yourself. I have a CICD pipeline setup, but my registry is used for my internal infrastructure only and is not publicly available.
Because this is a staticly linked binary with no external runtime dependancies, the container literally only contains the binary file, keeping it clean and low in size (6.3MB). I never did understand why people include operating systems in containers.
```bash
docker build -t siteviewconter:latest .
```
### Example docker-compose.yml
Create a docker-compose file
```yaml
version: '3.7'
services:
counter:
image: siteviewcounter:latest
restart: always
expose:
- "8080"
environment:
- dbname=counter
- dbhostname=counter-db
- dbusername=root
- dbpassword=CHANGEME
- timezone=America/Edmonton
counter-db:
image: mariadb:10
restart: always
expose:
- "3306"
volumes:
- /data/counter-db:/var/lib/mysql
environment:
- MYSQL_RANDOM_ROOT_PASSWORD=yes
- MYSQL_DATABASE=counter
- TZ=America/Edmonton
```
### Database initialization
The following SQL will initialize the database for this application. No automigrate / initialization is done upon first running the application, so this must be ran by an administrator.
```sql
SET NAMES utf8;
SET time_zone = '+00:00';
SET foreign_key_checks = 0;
CREATE DATABASE `counter` /*!40100 DEFAULT CHARACTER SET latin1 */;
USE `counter`;
CREATE TABLE `visit` (
`id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`ip_address` varchar(15) NOT NULL,
`visits` int(11) NOT NULL,
`last_visited` datetime NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;
```
### Example front end usage
You can pretty much implement this in your front end however you want, you just need to make a GET request to whatever endpoint the counter container is running at. This is how I use it though...
```html
```