NewsAgain

WIP prototype for a backend-less PWA feed reader replacing Liferea

Can be used as an

• Electron app
• Android app

While NewsAgain is technically a PWA as a feed reader it cannot be run in a normal browser as most websites do deliver feeds without permissive CORS headers causing a PWA to be unable to download them due to security errors. Electron/Android apps do not have this limitation.

Compile

npm install
npm test
npm run build
npm run build -- --release

Note that aside from all the NPM dependencies if you want to compile for Android you need:

• Android SDK with runtime v33.0.2 installed
• env variable set for Android SDK e.g. export ANDROID_HOME=~/Android/Sdk
• gradle 4.4.x

How to run

Run Electron app

npm start electron             # Run Electron app
npm start electron --nobuild   # Run without rebuild (much faster)

Run Android app on mobile in developer mode

npm start android --device

Run Android app in virtual device in Android Studio

cordova emulate android

Simple Cordova browser debug environment

npm start browser

Feature-Completeness

As NewsAgain will be a successor to Liferea it needs to roughly match the most important features and provide a desktop migration path. Here is the status of the features. Note that a 🛑 means the feature won't be ported.

Parsing

• Atom 1.0 / RSS 1.0, 1.1 and 2.0
• Dublin Core RSS namespace support
• itunes namespace support
• Favicon discovery
• Feed auto discovery
• 🛑 RSS 0.9x support
• 🛑 Atom 0.3 support

Web Scraping

• HTML5 extraction
• AMP extraction
• 🛑 Local script support

Network

• TTL Support
• Etags/last-modified
• RSS Syn Namespace
• User defined update intervals
• HTTP 429
• HTTP 410
• Basic Auth
• Secret Management
• 🛑 Proxy Support

Online Source Support

• Google Reader API (Miniflux, FreshRSS, ...)
• TinyTinyRSS
• InoReader
• TheOldReader
• Reedah
• OPML Import
• 🛑 local OPML sources

UI Navigation

• Feed list
• Hierarchic feed list folders
• Search folders
• Item list
• Item view
• Desktop mouse selection
• Middle click behaviour
• Launching external browser
• Launching internal browser
• Drag&Drop
• Keyboard navigation
• XDG Integration (URI schema, desktop icon)

UI Layouts

• 3 pane view (wide)
• 3 pane view (email-like)
• Automatic switching
• Reader Mode
• Dark Mode
• Custom Theme overrides

UI Tools

• Simple Subscription Dialog
• Advanced Subscription Dialog
• Update Monitor
• Plugins Support (JS instead of Python)
• 🛑 Tray Icon

Icon

Simple icon done by icon.kitchen:

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