Electern

Electern is an Atom/RSS feed reader built using Electron and dgrid.

Features

• Organize feeds in nested folders
• Import feeds from OPML (export not supported at this time)
• Pin articles to store them indefinitely
• Download individual articles as complete web pages to read offline (using icon in top right)
• RegExp search within article titles and content
• Configure how many articles to keep, how often to update, and whether to display images
  • Defaults can be configured globally (via Preferences), then overridden per-feed
• Zip distributions support portable mode via --portable command-line flag
  • On Mac OS X, you can run open Electern.app --args --portable; user data will be saved under the Contents/MacOS folder within the app.

Build Instructions

Requirements

You will need bower installed globally (i.e. npm i -g bower).

Development

1. Clone this repository
2. npm i (which will in turn run bower install)
3. npm start
4. If you will be editing SCSS, also run npm run scss:watch

Release

It is possible to build for all platforms from OS X.

brew install fakeroot dpkg wine-stable to install prequisites

npm run make-all to build for all platforms under out subfolder

On other platforms, npm run make will build for the current platform only.

License

MIT