whatsmyip

Golang API running as a Vercel Serverless Function which returns your public IP address

Links

• Homepage
• API - supports the following accept headers:
  • application/json
  • application/protobuf
  • defaults to text/plain

Prerequisites

• Required
  • Go
• Optional
  • Node.js and npm for running/deploying with Vercel
  • protoc-gen-go for updating the protobuf API contract found here

Setup

# Clone the repo and enter directory
git clone [email protected]:wafer-bw/whatsmyip.git
cd whatsmyip
# Get Vercel and login
npm i -g vercel
vercel login
# Link project to your vercel account
vercel

Usage

If you don't have make, you can just run the commands found in the Makefile directly

# Run the webpage & API
make run
# Run tests & benchmarks
make test
# Run the API only
make api
# Update coverage badge
make coverage
# Update protobuf API contract
make protoc

If you have issues with make protoc:

go get github.com/golang/protobuf/protoc-gen-go
export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/go/bin
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin

References

• I learned a lot of this from @codeallthethingz