go.todo

Everybody deserves tools to live a meaningful, productive life - Me

This is a proof-of-concept productivity project, which is a bunch of jargon for -- this is an app that aims to help you organize your thoughts into dependencies and next actions, enabling you to live a productive life, whatever that means to you.

Right now, it's a dinky web server built in Go. Long term, it will be a fully functional (double meaning, ask me later) application for all clients.

Setup

1. Install the Go programming language

Check if Go is already installed

#! which go
/usr/local/go/bin/go

Download the Go language binary & setup Go directories

TODO

Verify your installation

#! go version
go version go1.12.4 linux/amd64

Add Go binaries to your path (so you can run executables later)

#! export PATH=$PATH:~/go/bin

2. Download the project codebase

Change your working directory to the place where Go will be looking for code (confusing, too much to explain why it is like this, Google had a monorepo, resulting in problematic packaging patterns, but anyways this is defined in Step 1 of setup.)

#! cd $YOUR_GO_HOME

(One time only) Create a directory for your github account

#! mkdir $YOUR_GITHUB_USERNAME

Download your fork of the project. This creates a directory for your forked project, and copies it from the origin repository (GitHub).

#! git clone https://github.com/$YOUR_GITHUB_USERNAME/go.todo.git

Change directories in to the project directory and look around

#! cd go.todo
#! ls
main.go  README.md  Task.go

3. Build & Run the web server

#! go install
#! go.todo
Starting go.todo server
Go to http://localhost:8080 to get to it

4. Test the web server

Verify the web server is running & working correctly by going to the link http://localhost:8080 in your browser
Verify the web server is running & working correctly by curling the link in the terminal

#! curl "localhost:8080"
BOOYAH

Verify the task functionality with curl

#!  curl -X POST "localhost:8080/task" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"name":"post a task","completed":true}'                                                                                                                               
- [x] post a task
#!  curl -X POST "localhost:8080/task" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"name":"add completed functionality"}'                                                                                                                                
- [x] post a task                                                                                                                  
- [ ] add completed functionality                                                                                                  
#!  curl -X POST "localhost:8080/task" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"name":"add completed functi[1/104]
","completed":true}'
- [x] post a task
- [x] add completed functionality
#!  curl -X POST "localhost:8080/task" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"name":"add lists functionality"}'
- [x] post a task
- [x] add completed functionality
- [ ] add lists functionality
#!  curl -X POST "localhost:8080/task" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"name":"backup to file"}'
- [x] post a task
- [x] add completed functionality
- [ ] add lists functionality
- [ ] backup to file

Meanwhile, the running server process should print out these logs and look like this so far

#!  go.todo
Starting go.todo server
Go to http://localhost:8080 to get to it
{post a task true}
{add completed functionality false}
{add completed functionality true}
{add lists functionality false}
{backup to file false}