owenthereal/hacker-menu
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Hacker News Delivered to Desktop :dancers:
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README.md
OriginalHacker Menu
Hacker Menu stays on your menu bar and delivers the top news stories from Y Combinator news aggregator, built with love by @jingweno & @lokywin. It's powered by Electron and Node.js.
Website: https://hackermenu.io.
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Installation
Download the latest build for your platform from releases. We only have OSX build now, and we're working Windows and Linux builds. Feel free to contribute if you can't wait :heart:.
Development
You need to have the latest io.js or node.js installed.
$ npm install # installs dependencies
$ npm start # starts the app in the electron wrapper
Other useful tasks:
$ npm test # runs tests
$ npm run build # builds the app
$ npm run watch # watches and rebuilds the app
$ npm run package # packages the Mac app
$ npm run release # packages and zips the Mac app, it requires a cert to sign the app
Roadmap
See issues.
License
See LICENSE.
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