Snippet Expander

A desktop application built with Wails

Screenshot of Snippet Expander’s Select Snippet window

Screenshot of Snippet Expander’s Add Snippet screen

Screenshot of Snippet Expander’s Search & Paste window

Snippet Expander is “Your little expandable text
snippets helper”, for Linux.

Snippet Expander comprises of a GUI application built with Wails for managing
snippets and settings, with a Search & Paste window mode for quickly selecting
and pasting a snippet.

The Wails based GUI, go-lang CLI and vala-lang auto expander daemon all
communicate with a go-lang daemon via D-Bus. The daemon does the majority of the
work, managing the database of snippets and common settings, and providing
services for expanding and pasting snippets etc.

Check out the
source code
to see how the Wails app sends messages from the UI to the backend that are then
sent to the daemon, and subscribes to a D-Bus event to monitor changes to
snippets via another instance of the app or CLI and show them instantly in the
UI via a Wails event.