Fix unclear error when clubs db uri is missing or empty

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#379 opened on Apr 10, 2026 0 comments 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

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Difficulty: 2/5
Estimated time: 1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness: 68/100

Issue type: Bug
Clarity: Mostly clear
Activity status: Quiet
Tech stack: go, mongodb
Domain: backend, databases

Research direction

Start in configs/setup.go around line 130 and trace the CLUBS_DB_URI loading and Clubs database connection path. Compare the missing and empty URI cases, including db.PingContext(ctx), and verify that errors identify the Clubs Database, include the ping error where applicable, and avoid an unnecessary stack trace.

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Description

good first issue L1

when clubs db uri is empty, the user
When missing:

panic: Error loading 'CLUBS_DB_URI' from the .env file

This is a good error, and makes it clear whats wrong, but it prints a stack trace, which isn't necessary for this error, use log.Fatal instead of log.Panic to remove the stack trace

When Empty:

2026/04/09 20:39:37 Connected to MongoDB
20:39:37 .../configs/setup.go:130: Unable to ping database

Seeing this error, it almost looks as go-api is unable to ping MongoDB since that's what comes right before. Instead it's because of an empty/wrong CLUBS_DB_URI, and it wasn't able to ping the Clubs Database. Make it clearer that the issue is with connecting to the Clubs Database, and print the specific error that comes from db.PingContext(ctx) with the error message.

Dominant language: Go
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Merged PRs (30d): 5

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