JoyRant

An unofficial devRant client for iOS and macOS.

The goal of this project is to make an app that has the most commonly used devRant features.

Features like registration or avatar customization are not considered commonly used and are out of scope for now.

JoyRant is broadly similar to the official devRant app but tries to improve the UI/UX in many places.

It's built with SwiftUI and it is utilizing it for the vast majority of the app's functions and UI.

Current state of development

✅ Log in and log out

✅ Rant feed (Algo/Recent/Top)

✅ Weekly rants

🚫 Search for rants and users (Won't implement because devRant API only supports searching rants, not comments and not users. This is just not useful.)

✅ User profiles

✅ Subscribe to a user

✅ Upvoting/Downvoting in feed

✅ Show Rant with comments

✅ Upvoting/Downvoting in rant and comments

⏹️ Report rants/comments (not available in SwiftRant (yet?))

✅ Favorite/unfavorite rants

✅ Handling embedded links to other rants and external websites

✅ Showing images and gifs in zoomable fullscreen

✅ Create/Edit/Delete rant

✅ Create/Edit/Delete comment

✅ Upload image for rant and comments

✅ Notifications

✅ Sharing rants via link

⏹️ Viewing "Collab" rants properly

⏹️ Creating "Collab" rants

⏹️ Code block highlighting

✅ Community Projects page (using https://github.com/joewilliams007/jsonapi by joewilliams007)

TestFlight

https://testflight.apple.com/join/NoiaKmoN

Requirements

to build

• Xcode 14
• Swift 5

to run

• iOS 16
• macOS 13 (Ventura)

Credits

AltRant (for inspiration, ideas and proof of concept) - https://github.com/OmerFlame/AltRant

@DFoxinator (David Fox, the creator of the devRant platform) on Twitter - https://twitter.com/dfoxinator?lang=en