Developing a 2FA Desktop Client in Go

Welcome back! Long ago I made a video about Wails, which is a framework/library to develop desktop or cross-platform apps in Go. And recently I wanted to revisit this project, because I wanted to build a local desktop 2FA Authenticator App, similar to Google/Microsoft Authenticator and others.

I was hoping that I could try the latest version 3, but it’s not yet released. But that shouldn’t be a problem as v2 is more than enough to create a lightweight desktop app.

Short recap of how Wails works, I won’t Go into the details, you can check it yourself:

A Wails application is a standard Go application, with a webkit frontend. It is possible to bind Go methods to the frontend, and these will appear as JavaScript methods that can be called, just as if they were local JavaScript methods.