Chad

Cross-platform tool for writing posts in telegram channels with markdown and HTML supporting.

Download - Changelog - Features - How to use - Roadmap - Used libraries - How to build

Features

• Post preview (HTML, markdown, plain text)
• Sending posts in multiple channels
• Drafts of posts
• Change sent posts
• Sending post options
• Formatting controls (link, bold, italic)
• Multilanguage support
• Material design 😊

How to use

If you have bot token in telegram, you can start from step 4

1. Goto @BotFather in telegram
2. Create new bot with /newbot command
3. @BotFather give you bot token ('123456:ABC-DEF1234ghIkl-zyx57W2v1u123ew11')
4. Setting up bot, that will send posts in channel
5. Add channels where the posts will be sent
6. Write your post and send

Roadmap

• Attachments
• Link preview
• Sync scroll
• Two-column writing design
• Autosave
• Hotkeys and other user settings

Used libraries and frameworks

• Electron - framework for create cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS
• React - JavaScript library for building user interface
  • react-dom
  • react-addons-shallow-compare
• Material-UI - A Set of React Components that Implement Google's Material Design
  • react-tap-event-plugin - Instant TapEvents for React
• XSS - HTML sanitizer
• electron-contextmenu-middleware - Electron context menu
• electron-input-menu - Context menu for Electron input elements
• react-layout-pane - React layout component using flexbox
• superagent - small progressive client-side HTTP request library
• velocity-animate - accelerated JavaScript animation
• react-deep-force-update - force-updates React component tree recursively
• semver-compare - compare two semver version strings

How to build

1. Install gulp:

npm install gulp -g

2. Install dependencies:

npm install

3. Compile code:

# Debug
gulp build-debug

# Release
gulp build-release

4. Run build tasks:

# OS X
gulp package:mac

# Linux
gulp package:linux

# Windows
gulp package:windows

Builds destionation folder - 'builds'