A Go-backed quick-launch menu with JSON-driven hierarchy, keyboard shortcuts, search, and a Tailwind CSS frontend.
I built this as a personal productivity tool — a quick-launch menu that's faster than fumbling through browser bookmarks or remembering URLs. The Go backend serves a JSON-driven menu hierarchy, and the frontend is a polished single-page app with Tailwind CSS.
The menu supports three item types: submenus for nesting, card layouts for grid views, and leaf items that open URLs. Each item can have a keyboard hotkey (Alt+F, Ctrl+N, etc.), and there's a real-time search bar bound to the / key. Breadcrumb navigation tracks your position through the hierarchy.
The Go server is minimal — it reads the menu data from a JSON file, serves it via /api/menu, and auto-opens the browser on startup (with cross-platform support for macOS, Windows, and Linux). There's a dark/light theme toggle that persists to localStorage, and recent items tracking so your most-used shortcuts float to the top.
The nice thing about keeping the menu data in JSON is that customisation is trivial. Edit one file, refresh, done. No rebuild, no compilation.