Show HN: Freader, an open source RSS Reader built with Node.js and Angular

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Post by geekuillaume » Sun, Jun 30, 2013, 1:21 PM UTC

Show HN: Freader, an open source RSS Reader built with Node.js and Angular
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Re: Show HN: Freader, an open source RSS Reader built with Node.js and Angular

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Post by skarmklart » Sun, Jun 30, 2013, 2:23 PM UTC

Are you using NodeJs for the cron jobs too? (I am assuming you have cron jobs running to fetch feeds periodically).

Edit: I looked and it seems you are fetching the feeds on-the-fly.

Re: Show HN: Freader, an open source RSS Reader built with Node.js and Angular

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Post by petrel » Sun, Jun 30, 2013, 2:23 PM UTC

It is not working and says invalid feed even though the address is correct and works with all other readers.

Re: Show HN: Freader, an open source RSS Reader built with Node.js and Angular

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Post by kbar13 » Sun, Jun 30, 2013, 2:36 PM UTC

the green background is gonna get annoying, fast :(

Re: Show HN: Freader, an open source RSS Reader built with Node.js and Angular

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Post by geekuillaume » Sun, Jun 30, 2013, 3:29 PM UTC

skarmklart wrote: post #2

Are you using NodeJs for the cron jobs too? (I am assuming you have cron jobs running to fetch feeds periodically). Edit: I looked and it seems you are fetching the feeds on-the-fly.

Yes, it only get the feeds when a user need to, it's far more simple and unactives feeds are not refreshed uselessly

Re: Show HN: Freader, an open source RSS Reader built with Node.js and Angular

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Post by geekuillaume » Sun, Jun 30, 2013, 3:29 PM UTC

petrel wrote: post #3

It is not working and says invalid feed even though the address is correct and works with all other readers.

Weird... What is the feed's URL ?

Re: Show HN: Freader, an open source RSS Reader built with Node.js and Angular

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Post by geekuillaume » Sun, Jun 30, 2013, 3:31 PM UTC

kbar13 wrote: post #4

the green background is gonna get annoying, fast :(

Yes, I think I will switch it to a simple white, I'm not a very good web designer but I need to improve the global UI / UX

Re: Show HN: Freader, an open source RSS Reader built with Node.js and Angular

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Post by susi22 » Sun, Jun 30, 2013, 3:45 PM UTC

I wish it didn't have the MongoDB requirement. IMO something with a few thousand messages can easily be done w/o a full blown database.

Re: Show HN: Freader, an open source RSS Reader built with Node.js and Angular

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Post by marijn » Sun, Jun 30, 2013, 3:49 PM UTC

geekuillaume wrote: post #6

petrel wrote: post #3

It is not working and says invalid feed even though the address is correct and works with all other readers.

Weird... What is the feed's URL ?

It crashes on any Atom feed. It seems the code in scrapper.js only handles RSS, and even there makes some assumptions that might not hold for all feeds.

Re: Show HN: Freader, an open source RSS Reader built with Node.js and Angular

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Post by geekuillaume » Sun, Jun 30, 2013, 3:51 PM UTC

susi22 wrote: post #8

I wish it didn't have the MongoDB requirement. IMO something with a few thousand messages can easily be done w/o a full blown database.

MongoDB runs everywhere and in a very short time and there is a lot of service providing free databases for it. For example, the demo App is using MogoLab free offer and it's working just fine !