Orpington News

Orpington News is a self-hosted RSS/Atom feed reader with PWA support.

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Features • Installation • Development Quick Start

Features

• RSS 1.0/RSS 2.0/Atom feed support
  
• Nested collections drag-n-drop
  organize_collections.mp4
• Light and dark theme
  
• Mobile-friendly UI with PWA support
  mobile.mp4
• Syntax highlighting in code snippets
• Configurable fonts
  
  Supported article fonts:
  • Nunito (default)
  • Ubuntu
  • Lato
  • OpenDyslexic
  
  Supported monospace fonts:
  • Source Code Pro (default)
  • Ubuntu Mono
  • Fira Mono
  • OpenDyslexic Mono
  
  Settings live preview:
  
• Three collection layouts
  
  • Card
    
  • Magazine
    
  • List
    
• RSS feed auto-detection from page URL
  
  feed_autodetect.mp4
• OPML import
• Small Docker image size (40 MB uncompressed)

Installation

You need two things: Docker and PostgresSQL instance.

Docker image (ghcr.io/frysztak/orpington-news) exposes the app on port 8000. You also need to provide a handful of environmental variables:

• APP_URL
• DB_HOST
• DB_PASS
• COOKIE_SECRET - at least 64 characters long random string. If not set will use a fallback value. You can use openssl rand -base64 64 to generate it.

For DB_PASS and COOKIE_SECRET, _FILE suffix is also supported. For example, DB_PASS_FILE=./secrets/db_pass will read database password from file secrets/db_pass. All variables are described in Wiki page.

Sample Docker invocation:

docker run -it --name orpington-news --restart=always \
-e APP_URL=[ your public URL, including protocol ]  \
-e DB_HOST=[ your DB address ]  \
-e DB_PASS=[ your DB password ]  \
-p [ public port ]:8000  \
-d ghcr.io/frysztak/orpington-news

Sample docker-compose.yml is available here.

Development quick start

Orpington News backend is written in Rust, frontend is written in TypeScript using Next.js. To run the app locally, you need:

• Node 18 (if you're using nvm, .nvmrc is provided)
• Rust toolchain (rustup is recommended)
• Just command runner
• bunyan-rs log formatter
• cargo watch
• (optional) Docker, if you want to easily setup Postgres

Step-by-step guide:

1. Checkout the repo:

• dev branch, if you want latest and greatest
• master branch, if you want last tagged release

2. Start Postgres instance. You can do it any way you like, but for convenience, a docker-compose.db.yml file is provided. To run it:

$ docker compose -f backend/docker-compose.db.yml up -d

You should be able now to access pgAdmin at http://localhost:8080.

3. Install frontend dependencies:

$ cd frontend
$ npm ci

4. Orpington News uses just as a command runner, so running both frontend and API in watch mode is as simple as:

$ just

5. You should be able to access the app on http://localhost:3000, API will be available on http://localhost:5000/api. You'll need to create your user account. That's it!

License

• GNU GPL v3
• Copyright 2021-2023