Jungle Reader

Last summer I developed JungleReader, a feed-reader web-app. I wanted to see just how many feed-like things I could follow online. JungleReader runs right in your browser, and lets you follow any RSS-enabled website.

Try it! => www.zajungle.com

🚢 Features

You can follow:

• RSS feeds
• YouTube channels
• Reddit pages
• Mastodon pages
• And more!

😎 Highlights:

• Runs free forever at www.zajungle.com
• Released for iOS! (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/junglereader/id6505026591)
• Open-sourced the full code on my GitHub

🤖 Technical Details:

• Developed with Javascript (using Vue)
• Hosted on CloudFlare Pages
• Uses CloudFlare WebWorkers to proxy RSS requests (bypass CORS issues)
• Stores all app state in local storage (local-first architecture)
• Has a custom plugin system that runs plugins as sandboxed JS locally
• Released on iOS using capacitor library

🥂 Links:

• https://www.zajungle.com
• https://github.com/mgriley/BigOlJungle
• https://apps.apple.com/us/app/junglereader/id6505026591