briantwene/paperflow

A Cross Platform Desktop app made to discover and download beautiful wallpapers sourced from Reddit.

A Cross Platform Desktop app made to discover and download beautiful wallpapers sourced from Reddit.

Currently in development in the develop branch 🛠️

Features ✨

• A preview screen to set your wallpaper
• Fullscreen mode
• Explore a collection of stunning wallpapers from Reddit.
• Download and set high-quality wallpapers to personalize your desktop
• Cross platform

Screenshots 📷

Installation ⏬

You can download the latest version of the app from the releases page of this repository.

After navigating to the releases page, select the latest release and download the appropriate file for your operating system:

• For Windows, download the .exe file.
• For Mac, download the .dmg file.
• For Linux, download the .AppImage file.

After downloading the executable, you can install the app by double-clicking on the downloaded file and following the on-screen instructions.

Roadmap 🛣️

• Add more Desktop wallpaper subreddits

• Add more sources such as wallhaven.cc

• Set a Random wallpaper everyday

• Mark images as favorite for later

Currently Brainstorming more 🧠

Tech Stack 💻

The app is powered by Tuari which is a toolkit that allows you to use web tech on the frontend powered by Rust.

Frontend: React, TailwindCSS, Tanstack Router

Backend: Using Tauri's Rust Core as a backend to deal with image fetching and any desktop related stuff.

paperflow's Issues

Implement collections and favorites page

Implement discover page

implement image viewer subpage

Change the version of Deploy script to point to .nvmrc

PaperFlow: Navigation setup

Add Navigation

Research on the best router to use and install

Create the following routes:

• Home/Discover (Wallpapers)
• Search
• Favorites
• Collections?? (could be merged with favorites)
• Settings

PaperFlow: Check if a backend is needed

Considering Tauri is being used and the frontend is with react, will a backend be still needed for such an app or would it be possible to ship everything together like with Snappub Next.Js

Some questions I have?

• Would it be possible to do it all from the frontend?

• Even if it is, could I look at rust to do some more of the heavy lifting parts of the app, such as fetching data from the API and processing?

PaperFlow: Greater Hardening

Read up on Tauri best practices to make the application secure

API Fetching and processing

PaperFlow: Styling Setup

Styling

Need to look thoroughly at the styling options and see what would be the best here

Tailwind CSS and other frameworks

LESS/SASS

CSS Modules

Some component libraries are good too but might not go there

Implement search page

Implement settings page

PaperFlow: Data Management and Fetching

Need to think about the data flow in this app as well as the data management and fetching
will most likely be done in rust