Go To-Do

Startup

To build the project, simply run the following commands in the project directory:

$ npm install
$ npm run build
$ go build

Then, simply run $ ./go-todo and you will be able to access the UI by navigating to localhost:8080 in your browser!

Development

This project is capable of taking advantage of create-react-app's hot loading feature. In order to do this, however, you will have to pass an argument into the Go process to instruct it to run a little differently:

$ go run . dev

or, if using the binary,

$./go-todo dev

Then you can use $ npm start to run the development server for create-react-app as usual. To build the React app for static, "production ready" serving, use $ npm run build.

If you are wondering what the difference is between the "normal" mode of the server and the "dev" mode, it is simply a discrepancy caused by cross-origin requests. Even though the React server and the Go REST API are running on the same host, the difference in ports causes them to be treated as different origins, and as such, there are heavy restrictions on the API requests that cause them to fail. The "dev" mode adds headers to all responses that suppress these errors, but should not be used in a production mode. Although this app is small and doesn't have complex architecture, it is still good to try to follow best practices!