A cli HackerNews reader, using the HackerNews API.
I mainly created this as a way to play around with Bubble Tea, Lip Gloss, and consequently Go. It should be noted that I've barely even seen Go code before, so expect this to not be that clean.
- Can browse the current 500 hot stories and their comments;
- Allows hiding stories/comments/etc...
- Focus mode to read a single post in more detail;
- Cool colors;
- Syntax highlighting in code blocks;
- Vim keybinds;
- Lazy loading of posts;
- No cache/temp files.
ctrl+c / q- quit;pgdown- move 10 elements down;pgup- move 10 elements up;down / j- move cursor down;up / k- move cursor up;enter / right / l- go in story (select);left / h- go back;space- hide/unhide post;o- open story URL in browser (if any);O- open hovered post in browser;g / home- go to first post in list;G / end- go to last post in list;0-9- go to the selected index in the list;F- collapse current main story;f- toggle focus mode;
- Scolling up and down with the mouse is supported;
- Glamour doesn't currently support commonmark escape chars. There's a small hack to deal with the most common causes of it. See this issue;
- Glamour uses muesli/reflow wordwrap module for word-wrapping. For some reason, the word wrapping isn't being done like I expect. See Post 30377425;
- Mouse support disables the ability to select text on the application => I'll probably remove it in the future;
- I'm still not sure if I'm doing the JSON stuff currently (specially the array stuff);
- This is a cool resource for box-drawing characters (borders, etc...).
[X]- Load comments;[X]- Navigate comment tree;[X]- Add ability to open story URLs in the browser;[X]- Add ability to hide stories/comments;[X]- Represent poll results;[X]- Integrate Lip Gloss;[X]- Vertical scroll space thingy;[X]- Better tag for loading;[X]- Find way to include style JSON file in app (instead of re-reading it everytime);[X]- Cool loading indicator;[X]- Better pagination;[X]- Refactor code;[X]- More colors;[X]- Hovered post border color;[X]- Keys from 0-9 to move cursor;[X]- Make it so the current post attempts to stay in the middle of page;[X]- Collapse main story (maybeF);[X]- Bars to show proportion of votes in polls;[X]- There are some problems with the rendering;[ ]-Focus mode (Currently it lets you scroll infinitely down due to some code design problems (refactor stuff again);fkey) - shows only the current hovered post => allows scrolling on it and stuff (like paging).
[ ]- Keybind to list links in screen allowing user to select one to open;[ ]- Deal with title HTML - API says it is possible but I haven't found a single example yet);[ ]- Bubbles keybind thingy;[ ]- Focus mode middle of the screen;
The code present in this repository is licensed under an MIT License.