Snippet Pixie: Next - Finishing off using upcoming changes to Wails v2 | Always Developing #161
Channel: ianmjones
Date: 2022-04-27

00:00:00 Upgrading Snippet Pixie to use next version of Wails v2
01:05:00 I find the reason for the problems - nix-shell
01:11:45 Create wailsij nixpkgs overlay for custom wails binary
01:23:00 No dice, nix nix-shell ;-)

A little dragon told me about some upcoming improvements to Wails v2 that I might find really nice to work with, so let's check them out and try and apply them to the Svelte based Snippet Pixie desktop application.

In the last video (#160) ran out of time before being able to take full advantage of the changes in Snippet Pixie, in this follow-up I complete the migration to use the new features of Wails v2, but make plenty of mistakes along the way!
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Live coding an app with Go and SvelteJS.

Working on a rewrite of Snippet Pixie:- https://www.snippetpixie.com

The repository for the released version is on GitHub:- https://github.com/bytepixie/snippetpixie

This in-progress, unfinished, unusable version from these videos is on SourceHut: https://git.sr.ht/~ianmjones/snippetpixie

Always Developing Playlist:- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDWtdmaxq1few8CjnK4MC3LLBMVpi_aCS

Before starting every work day, I do half an hour or so of noodling on side projects, making sure to keep them moving forward, albeit slowly.

Working on these side projects is how I learn new programming languages, frameworks and technologies.

Chances are I'll fail miserably each and every day, so at the very least you can take comfort in seeing a so-called senior developer fumbling through some development with little success.

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Tech Used:
Go:- https://golang.org
Svelte:- https://svelte.dev
Wails:- https://wails.io