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DevToolKit

Go version 1.16 required

This repository contains a desktop application with many useful tools for software developers. It is written in Go using Wails for providing a multi-platform GUI.

Usage

Tools

All the tools are organized in tabs. You can click on your button of choice or press Ctrl+f to search for a tool.

Among others, the following tools are included:

Base64 encoding
Hex editor
HTTP client
JSON and XML pretty printing
JWT decoding
Port scanner

Customization

You can add a custom tab to the DevToolKit. Create a new file called pages.xml in the same directory as the executable. Here is an example for a simple HTML page with just a single link:

<pages>
    <page>
        <name>MyTool</name>
        <title>My cool tool</title>
        <tooltip>This is my cool new tool.</tooltip>
        <icon>fa-tools</icon>
        <body>
            <a href="http://www.qaware.de">QAware</a>
        </body>
    </page>
</pages>

Here, <name> must be a unique name, <title> is the button label, <tooltip> is the text for the button tooltip, <icon> is the Font Awesome icon, and <body> is the HTML source of the page.

Errors

In case of a crash, a stack trace is written to the file panic.txt in the same directory as the executable. If you raise a bug report, please attach the content of this file.

Development

Install Wails

See https://wails.app/gettingstarted/ to learn how to setup Wails on your platform.

Build locally

Checkout the code and run make build-debug to quickly build a development version with debug logging enabled. The artifact will appear in build/.

Release

Change the version number in the file main.go and create a tag consisting of a v as prefix and the same version number. Push the tag to the repository and thus trigger the GitHub actions that will automatically create a new release. After that, the installed DevToolKits from all the users will update to that new version.