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tails enables you to view, edit, and organize all your programming projects in one place
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# tails 🦊



`tails` enables you to view, edit, and organize all your programming projects in one place



**are you tried of**



- creating the same boilerplate when starting new side projects / apps?

  - ex. editorconfig, prettier, eslint, stylelint, vscode

  - ex. webpack w/ hmr, nodemon

- not having good linting / styling configurations, because you are tired of setting them up every time?

- having to search for your project on your hard drive, and find out how to run / access / deploy it?

- leveraging websites purported to solve these problems (ex. jsfiddle, codesandbox, etc), but they come with some other problems

  - sometimes code output is shown in tiny iframe

  - use online code editor, which is _not_ your ide with all the good plugins

  - projects not stored under version control

  - no easy way to see all / organize your projects from all these sites

  - have projects work easily after you download them (if there is a way to download from the site)



**don't you want**



- a tool that helps you organize all your side projects / apps

- a framework, utility, and ide agnostic tool

- something super extensible, allowing you to easily add a plugin to extend the feature set for how _you_ want it to be



## goals



to be a hub for all your projects, and be super extensible via plugins to modify projects however you like. some examples



- plugin that automatically boilerplates configuration for programing projects (ex. using yeoman)

  - creates _perfect_ combo of editorconfig, prettier, eslint, stylelint, and vscode setting to go with it etc.

- plugin that integrated with zeit, netlify etc. one click deploy solutions

- plugin that deploys chosen microservices to kubernetes cluster on demand

- plugin that opens up your project with a browser version of vscode, with all the plugins you need (no extras to slow launch time)

- plugin that gives you integrated dns (so nice urls) during development

- browse through, label, sort, and manage all your projects within the web interface

- leverage the tools that some with your ide as much as possible

- show projects from `repl.it`, `codepen`, `codesandbox`, etc. as separate `workspaces`

- plugin security (server side code runs on separate Deno instance)

- avoid reinventing the wheel



## details



some or most of these should be plugins that come bundled by default



- project type examples

  - web, spa, node, node + spa, deno, c++, scala, etc.

- ability to 'upgrade' web projects

  - ex. 'upgrade' web (static files) to node (importing `express` or `server-static`, etc.)

    - this copies rather than edits to prevent mistakes in upgrade process

  - ex. 'upgrade' (we w/ webpack bundler) + node to non-managed projects

  - similar ejecting for ejecting out of boilerplated config if needed

- showing stdout / stderr

  - maybe have cli so we can just output crap in an existing pty

  - or just for plugins

- linting / style formatting

  - option to have no linting or style formatting (meaning, the editor does everything)

  - or option to have prettier, eslint configs symlinked to project directory and have watch optiosn for auto update

  - or have combo wombo or something

- show generated metadata

  - how much browser support your website has

  - size of codebase gzipped, minified, etc.

- misc

  - open any mount of subprojecs at once without conflicts



# terminology



a `project` is a folder that contains a programming project

- ex. folder that contains a `package.json`

- ex. folder that is the root of a monorepo



a `pack` is a folder that contains `projects`

- starts with underscore `_`

- purpose to make `workspace` folder less flat and generic categorization

- does _not_ nest



a `workspace` is a folder that contains `projects` and `packs`

- specified `~/.config/tails/config.json`

- usually only one is needed



the following is an example of a worksapce called `programming-projects`



```js

> programming-projects (workspace folder)

  > _30-day-js-challenge

    > day-1

    > day-2

    > day-3

    > ...

  > _throwaway

    > mongodb-test

    > grpc-node-go-experiment

    > create-react-app-test

    > vue-3-alpha-composition-api

  > chat-app

  > custom-database

  > cool-react-app

```



## usage



project still in (heavy) early development (pre-alpha)



## contributing



```sh

git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/eankeen/tails

yarn install

make start

```