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12982 :: Forget-Me-Not: Reminders web application

• ITwrx (orginal) [2025-05-22T18:40:00+02:00] view original

  Hi,

  I just wanted to share our recently released Nim web application. It is simple, easy-to-use, single-user-per-instance web application for creating/editing Reminders and receiving email and xmpp notifications when they are due. It is based on Guildenstern and SQLiteral and we wrote some pseudo/micro web framework features mostly using the stdlib for CSRF protection, authentication, form input validation, and form errors and old/DB input. These features were actually first written for our Simple Site Manager, but we haven't gotten around to releasing the source code for that yet, as we have to write an example website for that, among other release tasks. It was our first attempt at web framework features, so some things could probably stand a future refactor, but we're happy with the result for now. Of course, if you see a security-related bug, or design flaw, we'd be happy for any reports by email via our contact form. All other issues can be reported in the source code repo tracker, if one is so inclined.

  Forget-Me-Not is released under the AGPLv3 in case you want to checkout the source code and/or self host.

  Our website project page for Forget-Me-Not (with short video demo): https://itwrx.org/forget-me-not.html

  The source code repo: https://source-code.itwrx.org/ITwrxOrg/Forget-Me-Not

  Thanks!

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• penguinite (orginal) [2025-05-22T20:03:08+02:00] view original

  This is amazing, though the README says to use nimble for downloading dependencies even though there isn't a nimble file in the repository.

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• ITwrx (orginal) [2025-05-22T21:14:19+02:00] view original

  Thanks! I just installed them with nimble as i went along, or already had them installed, and didn't think about that. :)

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• SolitudeSF (orginal) [2025-05-23T09:20:54+02:00] view original

  
  -- Install any non std/lib Nim package dependencies imported in the Forget-Me-Not source code with Nimble.
  Run

  really?

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• ITwrx (orginal) [2025-05-23T15:28:26+02:00] view original

  Thanks for y'alls feedback.

  https://source-code.itwrx.org/ITwrxOrg/Forget-Me-Not/issues/12

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• kobi (orginal) [2025-05-23T17:46:25+02:00] view original

  FWIW it looks really great!

  A quick question: is the web application refactored to a library, in other words, is there a library or framework, to base on for the next webapp?

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• ITwrx (orginal) [2025-05-23T18:25:28+02:00] view original

  Thanks! The library-esque elements are part of work that has been going on for a long time, actually. I've been working on a CMS/site builder using different approaches/designs (some were kind of crazy and didn't work out!) with Simple Site Manager being the latest iteration and the only one that has made it to production. It's more ambitious predecessor (in some ways) is/was flexi-site which would allow one to build custom layouts, forms, etc in the web gui. The library-esque features originated and were borrowed from there. I tried to make a library out of that stuff a while back, but couldn't (quickly) figure out how to organize my code to avoid recursive imports, so i was unable to release it that way. It's mostly just the little helper files though, so i figure anyone can just manually add those to their project if they want to use them, and can look at Forget-Me-Not's (or Simple Site Manager when it's released) main file, templates, and handlers as usage docs until i either figure out how to reorganize it, or nim 3 comes out with recursive imports. :)

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