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

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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.

You're right, I need to adapt it to handle any feed, stay tuned ;-)

Edit : I fix an error which crashed the application with a bad feed (without all the fields required) but I still need to adapt it to ATOM feeds

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

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I like that it is built using angular so I can get some tips on how authentication is done. However I think the UI needs work, for example expanding a feed button is all the way to the other side, why not slide down on click of title? I found some UI bugs for example, where the + and power icon was underlapping under my feed. The power button also does nothing for me. I also had issues with adding non rss feeds. Otherwise I like it. Nice work.

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

#15

Looking at the source (userDB.js) it seems that passwords are stored as plaintext. A major disappointment.

Yep, I still need to hash it before saving it. I found some libs doing that but I wanted to write an hashing function with salt without having to rely on a lib. Need some work !

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

#16

I like that it is built using angular so I can get some tips on how authentication is done. However I think the UI needs work, for example expanding a feed button is all the way to the other side, why not slide down on click of title? I found some UI bugs for example, where the + and power icon was underlapping under my feed. The power button also does nothing for me. I also had issues with adding non rss feeds. Othe…

Yes, I aggre, it still need some work to be good, any help is welcome !

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

#17

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

The issue with this is that, say a feed contains 10 items, and that between checking the feed more than 10 items are posted, you will miss items.

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

#18
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.

While one could disapprove of the choice of database, there's no reason to not use a database when you have little data.
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