After writing a blog post on building a bulletin board, I decided spend a couple of weeks and build something a bit more featureful, including user management, post editing, comments, basic mod tools and more.
The result of my work is bulletin-app. Even though it’s not the most impressive forum software out there, I had fun building it and I’m happy with the result.
I especially like the fact that it’s standalone and does not require any other software to run. Just download the statically linked executable (if you’re on linux), and run it.
(Specifically):
- Run this command to a registration invite:
CONN_STRING='file:/tmp/bullet.db' ./bulletin-app generate_invites --amount 1
- Run this command to start the server:
VISIBLE='Public' PORT=8080 SCOTTY_ENV='Development' CONN_STRING='file:/tmp/bullet.db' ./bulletin-app serve
And visit http://localhost:8080 (and add the result of the invite generation to the url to get to the registration page).
Let me know if you have any thoughts or questions about this!
