/free-riding

Free riding is a free reading application. You can access the text content of an web-article (mostly likely) that is behind a paywall. The core technology used is Lynx web browser.

Primary LanguageClojureMIT LicenseMIT

Free riding (free reading)

  • Use the Lynx super-powers to share text over the internet. 1
  • Democratize access to information and news.

Local build

Front-end

Install JavaScript dependencies and run shadow-cljs (which will also fetch the ClojureScript dependencies). Finally, the application will be running on port 8000.

yarn install 
yarn run shadow:watch

Back-end

Run the go server!

go run ./go/main.go

Running with docker

At the root directory:

  • Build image:
sudo docker build -t clojurescript-frontend .
  • Run image:
sudo docker run -dit --name my-running-frontend -p 8080:80 clojurescript-frontend

At ./go directory

sudo docker build -t golang-backend .
sudo docker run -it --rm --name my-running-backend -p 127.0.0.1:8181:8181 golang-backend

Use the application

Go to localhost:8080 and see the project running 🤓

Resources

Footnotes

  1. lynx.browser.org ↩