Building a Configuration Generator for Mikrotiks Using Wails and React

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React

Before attempting to build a solution in "Wails," I created a GUI using Fyne. Fyne was easy to build with, and I could make all of the desktop components using Go. Unfortunately, The legacy laptops I have to support don't have a recent graphics driver that would work with OpenGL, so I had to find another solution. Wails is that solution. Wails is a cross-platform desktop application framework that uses a web-view and web technologies to create a User Interface (UI). Now I can use React, the most popular framework for building UIs, and not rely on Go's fledgling GUI support. The fact that Wails uses mshtml, a win32 API that hasn't seen an update since Internet Explorer version 11 (IE11), was a feature in my case.

#Javascript UI Libraries #JS Library #JavaScript Framework 775 social mentions

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MikroTik RouterOS

I work at an Internet Service Provider (ISP) in Idaho, and we use Mikrotiks extensively for fiber and fixed wireless deployments. Configuring routers by hand was a common cause of errors on our network. The high number of unique configurations drastically increased the troubleshooting complexity of support calls.

#Operating Systems #Linux #Perimeter Security And Firewalls 23 social mentions