Merry Christmas, all you lovely people.
5 days ago, I was sitting in a cafe with my teammate and we were discussing how cool Dev.to is, while I was writing an article about menubar apps. Then suddenly I asked him, "What if there was a menubar app for Dev.to?"
He said "Man! That would be super awesome!"
So I asked a few other developer friends about it and they agreed that it was a good idea. And that's how I decided that I would try my best to deliver this app within 5 days. As a Christmas present for the beautiful people of this community. 🤗
So here I am with Dev10 v1.0.0. Let me quickly walk you guys through the Key Features.
Features
You can see new top posts from Dev.to in your menubar, every time you open it. The list will contain top 10 posts, as the name suggests.
Browse through the top 100 tags of Dev.to and see the top posts from a tag by clicking on it.
You can click a post to open it in the browser.
Or save the post in the Piggy list 🐷. It's like saving a post; the only difference is the next time you see that post in the top list, you will see a shouting piggy there, trying to convince you to read it😃. You can also remove the post from your piggy list by clicking the same piggy icon.
You can filter through saved posts by tags.
Stack
For this project, I gave myself the challenge to use Vanilla Javascript only. It's not like I hate frameworks or something, but the scope of the app was not big enough to demand a framework. Other than that I have used:
Compatability
This app is available on all platforms.
Join the Party 🎊🎉
I invite you all to contribute to this project. It's not the best code I have written but it works. Feel free to report bugs, suggest features or even work on one in your own free time.
sarthology
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Dev10
🐷 A nifty little app that shows you the top posts on Dev.to in your menubar.
Dev 10
A nifty little app that shows you the top posts on Dev.to in your menubar.
Feature
- Check the top posts from Dev.to right in your Menubar.
- Check the latest posts from top 100 tags on Dev.to.
- Save the posts in your Piggy List 🐷 to read later.
- Filter the saved posts using tags.
- New Dark Mode
Prerequisites
Before running this locally you must have these installed
- Node
- Electron
Installing
It's built in electron so the process to start this is really easy
npm installnpm install electron -gnpm start
That's it, you will see it running in your menubar.
Contributing
Feel free to contribute to this project and treat it like your own. 😊
License
MIT License
Author
Acknowledgments
Thanks Dev.to👩🏻💻👨🏻💻, for being a massively inspiring platform.
Icons used from flaticon
Thank you all for building this amazing community. Merry Christmas 🎅🏻 and Love you all ❤️.
Update: Excited for 2.0.0? Join this Gitter group now to contribute.
Top comments (45)
Yo, this is pretty dang cool! The fact that you did it in only 5 days makes it even more impressive.
Thanks, man !! 😊
I'll try to help out in refactoring the code if I find the time. Holidays are pretty hectic, you know?
I know man. I hope you liked your present though. 😃
Merry Christmas 😊
Happy merry to you, too! 🎄
This is sooo cool!
Thanks, Ben. Glad you liked it. 😊
It does work. I didn't get enough time to make a build for Linux. But you can check this post. Also feel free to make a Linux version if you want and let me know if I can help in any way. 😊
The "Linux" version is nearly a quarter of a gigabyte and doesn't seem to do anything - I'm not sure what is supposed to happen when I run it?
Told you it's a super cool idea 😉👍
Let's see man 🤞😀
Good job, looks pretty cool. I like how you've used pigs all over the place. And you seem to be a funny guy with a strange sense of humour: 😊
haha, You got me there. I mean framework like Angular or Reacts.
Cool !!
😁
Hey that’s me! I got pigs!
haha, Yeah you got screaming pigs. 😃
Let me know bro @sarthology If you are able to build it for Linux platform. 😊
Hi
No, its not the best community on the ..., its one of the best communities on somewhere.
I actually dislike js, electron, and all other cool stuffs in JavaScript, but great app. Hope to get better and bigger. 👏👌
Very cool! The 134mb are worth it! :)
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