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

45 points by geekuillaume 13y ago

skarmklart 13y ago
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.
- geekuillaume 13y ago
  Yes, it only get the feeds when a user need to, it's far more simple and unactives feeds are not refreshed uselessly
  - eertami 13y ago
    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.
petrel 13y ago
It is not working and says invalid feed even though the address is correct and works with all other readers.
- geekuillaume 13y ago
  Weird... What is the feed's URL ?
  - marijn 13y ago
    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.
    - geekuillaume 13y ago
      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
kbar13 13y ago
the green background is gonna get annoying, fast :(
- geekuillaume 13y ago
  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
susi22 13y ago
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.
- geekuillaume 13y ago
  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 !
- lucian1900 13y ago
  While one could disapprove of the choice of database, there's no reason to not use a database when you have little data.
tharshan09 13y ago
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.
- geekuillaume 13y ago
  Yes, I aggre, it still need some work to be good, any help is welcome !
beauxespirits 13y ago
Do I just submit a link like https://news.ycombinator.com/rss https://news.ycombinator.com/rss? When I do that, it says "cannot connect to server." :(
onestone 13y ago
Looking at the source (userDB.js) it seems that passwords are stored as plaintext. A major disappointment.
- geekuillaume 13y ago
  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 !

45 points by geekuillaume 13y ago

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.

geekuillaume 13y ago
Yes, it only get the feeds when a user need to, it's far more simple and unactives feeds are not refreshed uselessly
- eertami 13y ago
  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.

petrel 13y ago

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

geekuillaume 13y ago
Weird... What is the feed's URL ?
- marijn 13y ago
  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.
  - geekuillaume 13y ago
    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

kbar13 13y ago

the green background is gonna get annoying, fast :(

geekuillaume 13y ago
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

susi22 13y ago

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.

geekuillaume 13y ago
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 !
lucian1900 13y ago
While one could disapprove of the choice of database, there's no reason to not use a database when you have little data.

tharshan09 13y ago

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.

geekuillaume 13y ago
Yes, I aggre, it still need some work to be good, any help is welcome !

beauxespirits 13y ago

Do I just submit a link like https://news.ycombinator.com/rss https://news.ycombinator.com/rss? When I do that, it says "cannot connect to server." :(

onestone 13y ago

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

geekuillaume 13y ago
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 !