Readdit

Welcome to Readdit. After spending many nights staying up reading stories on r/nosleep I decided that maybe all this phone blue light isn't good for my quality of sleep. I recently bought a Kindle to help me get more into reading and ended up longing for an easier way to read my Reddit stories on the beautiful E-Ink display.

Readdit essentially takes the HTML/CSS from the desired Reddit posts, treats them as chapters, and converts them to an .epub format. Pretty simple.

Project Setup

Readdit currently uses a React/MobX frontend located in the client directory. The "backend" uses Firebase functions.

Currenty the only API endpoint uses the epub-gen to do the actual conversion. I'm working on reverse-engineered version of this library that will run in the browser (here), so a future iteration might see the removal of there functions altogether.

Getting up and running

You can check out the live version here.

1. Clone this repository

2. cd readdit

3. npm install

4. npm run api-dev to serve the Functions emulator locally.

5. npm run client-dev runs the webpack development server that comes built into create-react-app.

6. That's basically it. client and function directories have their own package.json files to do more specific things.

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NOTE

To run the Functions API emulator, you'll need the Firebase CLI installed globally.

Install with npm install -g firebase-tools

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How to contribute

I'm going to try to keep the Issues section as up to date as possible with bugs/features.

Any ideas? Create an Issue for discussion :)

If you feel like working on something leave a comment on the Issue so others know it's being worked on.

When you submit a PR for the client directory, head on over to the Live Preview Action Navigate to your commit then "Deploy Preview". You should see a link to a live preview of your branch.

Any questions just ask!