Trotto Go Links

(See the guide here to deploy to Heroku in minutes.)

Reliable and battle-tested, this go links solution is used by companies all around the world daily as the core of Trotto.

Try out the latest build at latest-master.trotto.dev and also check out the matching open-source browser extension.

If you'd rather use the fully-managed instance of Trotto, visit www.trot.to.

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Don't hesitate to reach out to us through help@trot.to, a GitHub issue, or live chat at https://www.trot.to.

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Features

Trotto provides all the baseline functionality you'd expect from a go links solution, including the ability to create, use, and modify go links that are shared with your organization—and with nobody else.

Trotto also includes powerful features above and beyond a basic go links implementation, including a searchable go links directory, a browser extension that makes go links work instantly, and programmatic links, which are go links containing placeholders that map onto the destination URL (ex: go/gh/%s pointing to https://github.com/my_org/%s).

For a full list of Trotto's features, check out https://www.trot.to/how-it-works.

Authentication

At the moment, the open-source app solely supports authentication using a Google account, but we plan to add support for additional identity providers upon request. So if you need support for another provider, submit a GitHub issue, and we'll help you out!

Deploy the app

See our deployment docs:

• Deploy to Heroku
• Deploy with Docker

Local development

You can bring up a local instance of Trotto within a few minutes.

Clone this repository

git clone git@github.com:trotto/go-links.git
cd go-links

Create a virtualenv

Inside the go-links/server directory, create and enter a Python 3.8 virtualenv and install dependencies:

cd go-links/server
virtualenv --python=python3 .virtualenv/
source .virtualenv/bin/activate
pip install -r src/requirements.txt

You can use pyenv as well.

Add an app.yml file

Add a file at server/src/config/app.yml with this format:

sessions_secret: any_secret
postgres:
  url: "postgresql://username:password@host/database"

postgres.url should be the connection string for a Postgres 12 database. The server startup script will add the tables Trotto needs.

Start the backend server

From the server/ directory, run:

./run_local.sh

Start the frontend development server

In a separate terminal, from the frontend/ directory, run:

yarn install
./start_dev_server.sh

Now, you can access the local instance at http://localhost:5007.

Making changes

Most server-side and frontend changes should be picked up automatically, thanks to the Flask dev server and React Hot Loader.