# Cake Order Tracker

A lightweight, robust order management system. 

## Key Features

* **Order Lifecycle Management:** Full CRUD operations for products and customer orders.
* **Search:** Order filtering by date range, and keyword search.
* **Easy Deployment:** Single-binary deployment utilizing Go, along with a single database file.
* **Interactive Client-Side Logic:** Dynamic order composition with real-time total price calculation.

## Tech Stack

* **Backend:** Go 
* **Database:** SQLite
* **Frontend:** HTMX, Templ, CSS, JavaScript
* **Tooling:** Versioned SQL Migrations, Go Toolchain, Templ

## Architectural Highlights

### 1. Database Persistence

The system implements a versioned migration system. The schema handles relationships between orders and products via join tables, ensuring integrity through the `database/sql` package's transaction support.

### 2. Separation of Concerns

* **/models**: Pure data structures for cross-package communication.
* **/store**: Encapsulated data persistence layer containing all SQL logic and migrations.
* **/server**: HTTP routing, handler logic, and template rendering.

## Installation and Running

### **Run the application:**
```bash
git clone git.bronku.xyz/bronku/cake-order-tracker
cd cake-order-tracker
go generate && go run .
```

### Deployment
1. Build the application
``` bash
git clone git.bronku.xyz/bronku/cake-order-tracker
cd cake-order-tracker
go generate && go build .
```

2. Install the binary 
```bash
# shouldn't be necessary if the binary was built on the same machine
sudo chmod +x cake-order-tracker

# move to a diractory you have in $PATH
sudo mv cake-order-tracker /usr/local/bin
```

3. Setup a systemd service (if yyou don't use systemd, then you probably don't need any instructions)
```
# it is recommended to create a dedicated user
sudo useradd