I have recently built a Stack Overflow clone with Dgraph and React. I was delightfully surprised by the pleasant developer experience and the performance of my application. In this post, I would like to tell the story of how I built Graphoverflow and share the best practices I learned for using Dgraph to build a modern web application.

One of the common use case in Go is to start a few goroutines to do some work. These goroutines block listening in on a channel, waiting for more work to arrive. At some point, you want to signal these goroutines to stop accepting more work and exit, so you can cleanly shut down the program.

The recent release of Dgraph is packed with new features and improvements. Many of them are related to strings - full text search (with support for 15 languages!) and regular expression matching have been added, and handling of string values in multiple languages was greatly improved. All of these changes make Dgraph an excellent tool for working with multilingual applications.