Making TUI kanban app with BubbleTea | MongoDB Atlas Hackathon 2022 on DEV

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What I built

A TUI(A terminal app with UI) Kanban app

I've taken what I saw in this playlist that was made by @bashbunni and took it to the next level.

I've made some adjustments and in order to this app be able to connect to a MongoDB and saved the data of the user.

Category Submission:

Think Outside the JS Box

App Link

repo

As it is a self-hosted app, you can download it and run it with the commands:

make sure that you provide a MongoDB URL in the .env file, the same way it is shown in the .env.example

go get
go run .

Screenshots

The main view:

The loading view:

The edit/add view:

Description

This full-CRUD app runs in your terminal with a beautiful UI.
It has three columns, To-do, In Progress, and Done columns. Where you can add tasks to the queue and edit them, changing the description or task location

Link to Source Code

repo

Permissive License

Background

I've decided to build this app because I wanted to learn Go and BubbleTea. Creating new features/recreating an app is an excellent way to get this knowledge.

Also, as a maintainer of an OSS project(MeteorJS) that has MongoDB as its first-class citizen, I wanted to see what other MongoDB drivers look like with other languages that are not JS. And got happy with the results.

How I built it

(How did you utilize MongoDB Atlas? Did you learn something new along the way? Pick up a new skill?)
I used MongoDB Atlas to save user's data in the database. So that whenever you close your terminal, you will not lose any data.

I would say that I learned a lot about Go and BubbleTea and how to use them to make glamorous command-line apps.

Also, I think I got better at MongoDB in general. After all, I could turn my language-specific understandings with MongoDB into general ones because I used them in an unfamiliar language.