Kotlin/Elm/Electron Tech Demo
Another HN Desktop client: https://github.com/spennihana/HackerDesktop Last weekend user westoncb posted[1] an app built in kotlin/swing[2]. A comment there mentioned that an electron app might be an interesting alternative, and here is the result of this last week's hackings. It uses the firebase API underneath and elm/electron to interact with kotlin via the spark-kotlin micro rest framework. The icns were made with Adobe Illustrator. The dmg unpacks to a whopping 250MB (since it packages the JRE in addition to all of the usual electron junk). video link:…
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Another HN Desktop client: https://github.com/spennihana/HackerDesktop Last weekend user westoncb posted[1] an app built in kotlin/swing[2]. A comment there mentioned that an electron app might be an interesting alternative, and here is the result of this last week's hackings. It uses the firebase API underneath and elm/electron to interact with kotlin via the spark-kotlin micro rest framework. The icns were made with Adobe Illustrator. The dmg unpacks to a whopping 250MB (since it packages the JRE in addition to all of the usual electron junk). video link: https://www.youtube.com/embed/oQSy3SlsaHI?ecver=1 dropbox dmg link (if you wanna take it for a spin): https://www.dropbox.com/s/pzoeskdk2d04r6t/HackerDesktop.dmg?... There are other hacker news clients that are actually well-made (like HackerWeb[3]). [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15425545 [2] https://github.com/westoncb/HNDesktop [3] https://hackerwebapp.com/ edited to cleanup language
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