Snippet Box is an open-source snippet manager built with Go and Vue.js. It allows you to organize and store code snippets for easy access. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Snippet Box on your Elementary OS machine.
Before we begin, make sure that your Elementary OS system is up-to-date. Open the terminal and use the following command to update the system:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
To install Snippet Box, we need to perform the following steps:
Snippet Box is built with Go, so we need to install Go on our system before we can proceed. To install Go, enter the following command in the terminal:
sudo apt-get install golang-go
Now that we have installed Go, we can proceed to clone Snippet Box from the GitHub repository.
To clone Snippet Box, enter the following command in the terminal:
git clone https://github.com/pawelmalak/snippet-box.git
This will clone the Snippet Box repository to your current directory.
Once you have cloned the repository, navigate to the snippet-box directory using the cd command:
cd snippet-box
Then, build the Snippet Box application using the following command:
go build
After building Snippet Box, we can run the application using the following command:
./snippet-box
This will start the Snippet Box server on localhost:4000. You can access the Snippet Box app by opening a web browser and navigating to http://localhost:4000.
That's it! You have successfully installed Snippet Box on your Elementary OS machine.
In this tutorial, we have learned how to install Snippet Box on Elementary OS. Snippet Box is a powerful snippet manager that can help you organize and store your code snippets for easy access. Happy coding!
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