GoDo: A command line todo list application

Table of Contents

• About
• Getting Started
  • Requirements
  • Installation
  • Recommendations
  • Configuration
• GoAPI
  • Authentication
  • Server
  • Daemonize
• Licence

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About

GoDo aims to help you get organised with your tasks. Designed to be simple and accessible.

Usage:
  godo [command]

Available Commands:
  add         add a new todo
  done        toggle todo as done
  edit        edit a todo
  find        search for a given string
  help        help about any command
  list        list your todos
  priority    label a todo as a priority
  remove      remove a todo
  version     print godo's version

Flags:
      --datafile string   data file to store todos
  -h, --help              help for godo

Use "godo [command] --help" for more information about a command.

Go get things done and checked off the list.

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Getting Started

Requirements

The best way to ensure GoDo will work on your machine, is to compile it yourself.

• Go (to compile applications)

To do this, all you need is to have Go - the programming language - installed on your computer.

Installation

To install GoDo, all you have to do is run the go get command.

$ go get -u github.com/rsHalford/godo

Recommendations

If you want to have your GoDo list available online, and accessible to other computers. There is GoAPI. A REST API which can handle the JSON created by GoDo.

To edit the necessary variables to hook up GoAPI with a database. You will need to clone the GoAPI repository.

$ git clone github.com/rsHalford/goapi

Then after making the necessary changes to the source code. Build the GoAPI binary, for the operating server it will be ran on.

$ env GOOS=linux GOARCH=amd64 CGO_ENABLED=0 go build github.com/rsHalford/goapi

This example command will build GoAPI to be executable on Debian 10.

Then you would need to have a web server installed and a way to run GoAPI as a daemon.

• Apache2 (ProxyPass to your web address)
• Systemd (daemonize GoAPI to run in the background)

These recommendations are based on what I found to work best for my setup.

Configuration

The config.yaml can be edited to set-up a connection to GoAPI. As well as, select your preferred text editor.

This file will read from ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-$HOME/.config}/godo/config.yaml.

username: "admin"
password: "secret"
api: "https://example.com/api/v1/todo"
editor: "vim"

If you prefer to use a local JSON file to store your todo list, leave the api address blank - "".

By default, GoDo will use whatever text editor you have set as your system's default - $EDITOR.

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GoAPI

GoAPI was built to support the GoDo application, in providing a RESTful API.

To setup the server application, there a three changes that need to be made.

Authentication

To secure your todo list online, you will need to change the api_username and api_password variables, required to access the API endpoints. These variables are found in the config.yaml file.

These values will be what you send to the API with each request, using Basic Authentication.

An example of the config.yaml can be found in the project's repository

api_username: "username"
api_password: "password"

Currently GoAPI only supports PostgreSQL. To link up the server to a database, make sure to edit the config.yaml. Providing the db_username, db_password, name and port - relating to your database address.

db_username: "username"
db_password: "password"
name: "goapi"
port: "5432"

Server

GoAPI by default serves on port :8080. As an example, below is a basic Apache configuration file to relay GoAPI to your domain.

Apache Configuration Example:

<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerName goapi.example.com
        ServerAdmin [e-mail]
        ProxyRequests Off
        <Proxy *>
                Require all granted
        </Proxy>
        ProxyPass / http://127.0.0.1:8080/
        ProxyPassReverse / http:127.0.0.1:8080/
        ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/goapi-error.log
        CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/goapi-access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

Daemonize

To have GoAPI run at all times in the background. You will need to make it run as a daemon. This is possible by creating one as a service with your init system - such as with systemd.

Systemd Service Example:

[Unit]
Description=GoAPI RESTful API

[Service]
ExecStart=/path/to/goapi/excutable
WorkingDirectory=/path/to/goapi
StandardOutput=journal
StandardError=inherit
SyslogIdentifier=goapi
User=user
Group=group
Type=simple
Restart=on-failure

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

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Licence

GoDo and GoAPI are both released under the GNU General Public License v3.0.