reddit-lite

Available at reddit.jamesbarnett.io

A lightweight, minimal, readonly Reddit client, designed for mobile devices or slow connections.

Running locally

Reddit-lite is written in Kotlin using the Spring Boot framework. You will need Java 8 or later to run it.

git clone https://github.com/jamesbarnett91/reddit-lite && cd reddit-lite
./gradlew run

Alternatively, you can pull the jbarnett/reddit-lite docker image and run that.

docker run --name reddit-lite -d -p 8080:8080 jbarnett/reddit-lite

Then navigate to localhost:8080 in your browser.

Or go to reddit.jamesbarnett.io) for a hosted version.

TODOs

• ~~option to hide thumbnails~~ [done]
• ~~collapsible comments~~ [done]
• async load of deeply nested comments
• sort posts/comments by top/hot/new
• view subreddit info/sidebar
• highlight gilded posts/comments
• highlight comments from OP
• should probably write some tests...