reference_manager

This is a browser-based reference manager, written using Go's standard net/http and html/template libraries, with the ability to generate formatted bibliographies. Data is stored in a postgres database, and bibliographies are output in one of two ways: 1) to a text file in the user's downloads folder, or 2) as a plain text response in the browser.

You can see a live version of the app here <ref-manager.michaelfatigati.dev>. Note, however, that accessing the app there means you can only output a bibliography in the browser (since the Go os library interacts with the server's OS, not the client's).

To get full functionality, download the Go package, and run it on your computer, as follows:

• create a .env file in the project root, with the following variables:
  • USER (your postgres database username)
  • PASSWORD (your postgres database password)
  • DEFAULT_DB (the default database, normally just "postgres")
    • the application first connects to the default database, before creating the database that it will use.
  • PORT (the port on which you want the application to run)