node-news is a simple RSS/Atom feed aggregator with a browser-based client and a NodeJS-based HTTP server. Both client and server rely on the Dojo Toolkit which allows them to share similar patterns and idioms. PostgreSQL is used for the database.
This is alpha-quality software and is missing a number of important features:
- Unread article counts and related visual cues
- Error reporting in the UI
- Server support for sending ranges of articles rather than the entire list
- Multi-word feed categories
- i18n support
Long polling for updates and better server/client code sharing are also in mind.
To get the project and retrieve all its dependencies:
git clone --recursive https://github.com/brandonpayton/node-news.git
cd node-news
npm install
To create a the database on a local postgres instance:
psql --set database_name=news < server/data/create.pgsql
The default database name is "news", but use whatever name you'd like and update the postgresConnectionString in server/config.json.
The server configuration is in server/config.json and is hopefully self-explanatory.
In the root of the project, run the following command:
node node-bootstrap.js load=server
Browse to http://<server-ip-or-hostname>:<server-port>.
The client is intended to support modern desktop browsers such as Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera, and IE9+, but so far, it has only been tested with the latest versions of Chrome and Firefox on OSX.
CAUTION: I haven't tested the client with IE yet, but nothing in the client should preclude IE9 support.
Thanks to Justin Pitts for giving advice and feedback as I got to know Postgres over the last month.
New BSD License © 2013 Brandon Payton http://happycode.net.