devRant Unofficial Cross Platform Desktop Application

Here is the initial sketch we made for our app:

Home Screen

Collapsible sidebar

Single Rant

Post rant

This is our approach to create a cross platform desktop application for devRant.io.

Requirements to build this software:

- NodeJS v7.7.3

Preferable editor to work on the source code:

- Visual Studio Code

How to setup project using IntelliJ IDEA:

• Install NodeJS from here: https://nodejs.org/en/

• Clone this repository using: git clone https://github.com/tahnik/devRantron.git

• cd into downloaded directory

• To run in production mode:

  npm run prod

• To run in development with hot reloading, open two terminal. In the first terminal run

  npm run hot

  In the second terminal run

  npm run dev

  The first commands creates a webpack dev server which will watch and reload the bundle as you edit and will it available at https://localhost:8080. The second command will run the electron app in development mode. So it will open up devtools with React and Redux devtools initialized.

• To run test:

  npm test