TVR: The TV of the Internet

TVR is a television interface for reddit, the front page of the internet. TVR runs entirely in your browser and relies only on the reddit API.

Description

Watch the latest videos from any subreddit, played back-to-back without interuptions. You can also view images, gifs, embedded webpages, twitter posts, and maybe more! Load up your favorite subreddit and enjoy what the internet is watching.

Common Shortcuts

• > or . plays next post
• < or , plays previous post
• SpaceBar or Enter toggles play/pause
• a Auto Advance
• f Fullscreen
• Esc Exit Fullscreen
• ↑ Increase Volume
• ↓ Decrease Volume
• ← Go back 5 seconds
• → Go forward 10 seconds

Skip to certain parts of the video

• 0 Go to the 0% mark
• 1 Go to the 10% mark
• 2 Go to the 20% mark
• 3 Go to the 30% mark
• 4 Go to the 40% mark
• 5 Go to the 50% mark
• 6 Go to the 60% mark
• 7 Go to the 70% mark
• 8 Go to the 80% mark
• 9 Go to the 90% mark
• End Go to the End

Goals

• Watch reddit videos
• Read reddit comments
• Look at reddit images and gifs, webpages, selfposts, twitter
• Read from new, controversial, top, and rising

Maybe Goals

• Load subreddits from authenticated reddit profile
• Vote on reddit posts and comments
• Write reddit comments

Non Goals

• Source content from non-reddit sources
• Override native players

Running locally

To get started running TVR locally, start by cloning this repo:

$ git clone https://github.com/lastcanal/TVR

Install the dependancies

$ yarn

Run the dev-server

$ yarn start

Run the tests

$ yarn test

Auto-fix linter errors

$ yarn fix

Build a release

$ yarn build

Contributing

TVR is written using React and Redux. Install Redux Devtools to see what is happening under the hood.

Pull requests, issues, bug reports and ideas are all welcome!

There are 2 babel optional propoals in use in this app:

Optional Chaining: Use whenever possible!

Pipeline Operator: Use only when wrapping exported components with higher-order components (HOCs)

Licence

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Affero General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

Extra

Watch the Ramsay video pictured above