A minimalist password manager desktop app: a foray into Golang's Wails framework (Part 2)

1. go-echo-templ-htmx

   1 1 278 2.9 Go

   Go/Echo+Templ+Htmx: Full stack application using Golang's Echo framework & Templ templating language with user session management + CRUD to a SQLite database (To Do List) and HTMX in the frontend

   

   The truth is that I had worked first with Vanilla Js and Vue, then with React, and even with that strange library that for many is HTMX (which I have to say that I love ❤️). But Svelte makes you fall in love from the beginning, and I have to say that it was while experimenting with Wails that I used it for the first time (and I promise to continue using it…). But as comfortable as a web framework is, we must remind backend developers that the frontend is not that easy 😀!!

2. SurveyJS

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3. svelte-spa-router

   2 18 1,573 5.7 JavaScript

   Router for SPAs using Svelte 3

   

   3 things to comment here. The first is the use of the svelte-spa-router library (for more details see its doc here). For the simple purpose of changing views in a desktop application, this library more than fulfills its purpose. With the 7 views or pages we create a dictionary (or JavaScript object) that associates routes with views. Then this dictionary is passed as props to the Router component of svelte-spa-router. It's that simple. As we will see later, through programmatic navigation or through user action we can easily change views.

4. Nu-i-uita

   3 2 6 6.6 Svelte

   Minimalist password manager desktop app made with Golang - Wails & Svelte.

   

   To finish this review of the frontend part of our application, it only remains to say something about the About component. This has little logic since it is limited to displaying information about the application as is usual in an about. It should be said, however, that, as we can see, the view shows a link to the application repository. Obviously, in a normal web page an anchor tag () would make us navigate to the corresponding link, but in a desktop application this would not happen if Wails did not have a specific function (BrowserOpenURL) for this in its runtime:

5. vite

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   Next generation frontend tooling. It's fast!

   

   If you have used any web framework, you will quickly recognize that the Wails CLI uses ViteJs under the hood:

6. upx

   5 34 16,120 9.2 C++

   UPX - the Ultimate Packer for eXecutables

   

   Note that if you use the make create-bundles command when running it, it will call the Wails commands wails build -clean -upx (in the case of Linux) or wails build -skipbindings -s -platform windows/amd64 -upx (in the case of Windows). The -upx flag refers to the compression of the binary using the UPX utility that you should have installed on your computer. Part of the secret of the small size of the executable is due to the magnificent compression job that this utility does.

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