SubReddit allows users to view and favorite posts on the r/analog subreddit.
The project is a single page application written in React with two routes: one for viewing top posts and another for viewing favorites. No styling frameworks have been used in this project, all CSS and animations are custom developed in order to keep the project as lean as possible. External dependencies include:
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The react-router library is used for routing and integration with the browser history api.
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Axios is employed for loading external JSON data from the Reddit API.
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React-timeago is employed for translating dates to the 'n seconds/minutes/days ago' format. This proved to be a lighter and more purpose-built solution than something like moment.js.
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All icons are SVGs that have been obtained from FontAwesome. FontAwesome is the creator of all such Icons and no modifications aside from meta-data (classnames) have been made. Use of these assets is permitted under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
This project was bootstrapped using create-react-app (CRA) and deployment eased thanks to react-gh-pages.
As of its initial release SubReddit has been tested and confirmed to work appropriatly in the most recent versions of Chrome and Firefox (Debian Stretch) as well as on the Android version of Chrome and Firefox. Please note that the content blocking setting recently added to Firefox for Android may interfere with loading much of the application.
SubReddit is very much at a 1.0 release stage. High priority features/tasks on the project roadmap include:
- Implementation of a rigorous test system to ensure code quality and enable TDD.
- Proper accessibility review.
- The ability for users to store favorite post data in browser storage for future visits.
- infinite-loading or load-more button to allow users to access additional top-posts from the subreddit.
- A tasteful exit-animation when removing favorited posts in the favorites view.
- The ability for users to follow add additional subreddits to follow.
- lazy-loading
In the project directory, you can run:
Runs the app in the development mode.
Open http://localhost:3000 to view it in the browser.
The page will reload if you make edits.
You will also see any lint errors in the console.
Launches the test runner in the interactive watch mode.
See the section about running tests for more information.
Builds the app for production to the build folder.
It correctly bundles React in production mode and optimizes the build for the best performance.
The build is minified and the filenames include the hashes.
Your app is ready to be deployed!
See the section about deployment for more information.
Note: this is a one-way operation. Once you eject, you can’t go back!
If you aren’t satisfied with the build tool and configuration choices, you can eject at any time. This command will remove the single build dependency from your project.
Instead, it will copy all the configuration files and the transitive dependencies (Webpack, Babel, ESLint, etc) right into your project so you have full control over them. All of the commands except eject will still work, but they will point to the copied scripts so you can tweak them. At this point you’re on your own.
You don’t have to ever use eject. The curated feature set is suitable for small and middle deployments, and you shouldn’t feel obligated to use this feature. However we understand that this tool wouldn’t be useful if you couldn’t customize it when you are ready for it.
To deploy this code to a live site via GitHub Pages, you and deploy which will build the code and deploy to the GH-Pages branch of this project on GitHub Pages. If working in a fork, be sure to update the homepage key in Package.json to match your GitHub user and repository name.
You can learn more in the Create React App documentation.
Copyright (C) 2018 J.D. Bean
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
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