Modern Wails Application

About

This is a modern desktop application built with Wails, React, TypeScript, and Chakra UI. It features a responsive and accessible UI with both light and dark mode support.

Features

• Greeter functionality
• Real-time calculator with basic math operations
• Live clock display
• Dark/Light mode toggle
• Modern, responsive UI with Chakra UI components

Prerequisites

Ensure you have the following installed:

• Go 1.18 or later
• Node.js 14 or later
• Wails CLI (install with go install github.com/wailsapp/wails/v2/cmd/wails@latest)

Development

To run in live development mode:

cd wails-app
wails dev

This will run a Vite development server that provides fast hot reload of frontend changes. You can also access the Go methods through the dev server at http://localhost:34115.

Building

To build a redistributable, production-mode package:

cd wails-app
wails build

This will create an executable for your platform in the build/bin directory.

Technologies Used

• Backend: Go
• Frontend: React, TypeScript
• UI Framework: Chakra UI
• Desktop Framework: Wails

Project Structure

• /frontend - React frontend code
• /frontend/src - React components and assets
• /wailsjs - Auto-generated bindings between Go and JavaScript
• app.go - Main application logic
• main.go - Entry point for the application