# Go Background Jobs

Experimenting with River Async task system for background jobs in golang.

## Starting Local Dev

This project requires a running postgres database for River's task system.

To start a postgres database use:
```
make start-local
```

To stop it use:
```
make stop-local
```

A simple `.local-profile.template` is available with environment variables that can be helpful when working in this project. 

```
cp .local-profile.template .local-profile
```

Update the profile with any additional envvars you will need then:

```
source .local-profile
```

You can now connect to the local database using `psql $PG_URI`

If you do not have `psql` installed:

```
brew install libpq
```

## Resources

- [Go Background Jobs with River Queue](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TC9fwhvzoMM&t=362s)