The groundstation's backend written in GO.
This part of the groundstation is the side that communicates directly with the rPod/rFlight etc...
The groundstation uses the gRPC protocol to communicate with whatever type of frontend we'd choose to use.
Before pulling the repo make sure you understand how Go development works
The project is structured as follows: $GOPATH/src/rloop/
According to the gRPC website:
- Make sure you are using Go 1.6+
$ go version - Install gRPC
$ go get -u google.golang.org/grpc - Install Protocol Buffers v3:
- First you need to download the pre-compiled binaries for the protoc compiler, unzip the files and add the path to the folder in your environment variables
- Next install the protoc plugin for Go
$ go get -u github.com/golang/protobuf/protoc-gen-go
While developing you can simply run the app with the next command: $ go run main.go [<ports>].
If no ports are given, default ports defined in the constants package are used.
Vet examines Go source code and reports suspicious constructs, [...] it can find errors not caught by the compilers.
The build script is useful as it will compile the go code for the 3 main platforms (Windows,Mac and Linux)