Fixing JWS.app: The “Superfeed” (Part 1)

One of the goals for JWS.app was for it to pull in activity from a bunch of sources and update itself.  That is the reason why I created the “superfeed”.  Let’s start by looking at its current state.

See the Pen
JWS.app – Superfeed (Before)
by Joe Steinbring (@steinbring)
on CodePen.

Getting the content from the photo blog, the blog, dev, github, and the two tumblr blogs and interleaving the content was tricky enough.  When it came to displaying the updates, I just used an unordered list in version 1.  I couldn’t immediately think of an alternative.  In previous weeks, we have leveraged Bulma.  I figured that we could use it again.

See the Pen
JWS.app – Superfeed (After – Option 1)
by Joe Steinbring (@steinbring)
on CodePen.

The above example uses Bulma‘s Media Objects.  This look is similar to what you see with things like twitter.  It feels like a lot of waste, so let’s try another option.

See the Pen
JWS.app – Superfeed (After – Option 2)
by Joe Steinbring (@steinbring)
on CodePen.

This might be my favorite option, so far.  This example uses Bulma‘s Cards.  My goals were for long-form posts (like this) to be more prominent and to do something mildly similar to Microsoft’s Metro design language.

I am not completely sure if the Bulma Card solution is best option or not but I do think that there is a next step to this.  Previously, we looked at the Notifications API and that got me thinking about incorporating push notifications.  I might need to add some sort of Modal (to have something to link to), though.

 

[ Cover photo by AbsolutVision on Unsplash ]

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