tahnik/devRantron: A cross platform desktop application for devRant

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Unofficial devRant desktop client.

Works on Linux, MacOS and Windows.

Table of Contents
Features
Installation
Contribute
- How to setup the project
- Commiting code
- Before pushing
Contributors

Features

Login with devRant Account

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View Rants and Make Comments

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Post Rants and Pick Emojis!

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Get Real Time notifications

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Make Your Custom View!

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View Profiles

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This is our approach to create a cross platform desktop application for devRant.com.

Installation

Pre-compiled builds can be found on the latest release page. Additionally on macOS, brew can be used to install devRantron:

$ brew cask install devrantron

Contribute

How to setup the project

$ git clone https://github.com/tahnik/devRantron.git
$ cd devRantron
$ npm install
$ npm run dev

The dev script entry will start two processes. One process will create a webpack-dev-server that will watch and reload the bundle as you edit and will make it available at http://localhost:8080. The second process will run the electron app in development mode, meaning that it will open up devtools with React and Redux devtools initialized.

Commiting code

Make sure that your code is passing all linting tests before commiting it. This is usually done automatically by using husky precommit hooks.

devRantron uses angular styled commit messages. Messages that do not match the criteria are rejected. To make it easy to use them, use git cz instead of git commit. It will start an interactive prompt and asks you for various things.

Before pushing

Make sure that you add yourself as a contributor. Simply run npm run contributors:add <comma_separated_list_of_emoji_keys. All the different emoji keys can be found here.