Open Source: Winds

Deploying the Winds API to Digital Ocean with Fabric

Winds is a popular RSS and Podcast application provided by Stream – a service that allows you to build news and activity feeds in hours instead of months. Because Stream values collaboration and the opinions of our users, Winds is 100% open-source and the backend is easy to insta…

Deploying the Winds App to Amazon S3 and CloudFront

Winds is a popular RSS and Podcast application powered by Stream – a service that allows you to build news and activity feeds in hours instead of months. Winds is 100% open-source and the frontend is easy to install in a local environment or in the cloud – a task that we will cov…

Deploying the Winds API to AWS ECS with Docker Compose

Winds is a popular RSS and Podcast application provided by Stream – a service that allows you to build news and activity feeds in hours instead of months. Winds is 100% open-source and the backend is easy to install in a local environment or in the cloud – a task that we will cov…

The Engine That Powers Winds 🚂

For those of you who don’t know, Winds (the popular open-source RSS and Podcast application) is powered by Stream – a SaaS offering that is specifically dedicated to powering news and activity feeds. If you’d like to get jumpstart your knowledge of feeds, we have an awesome 5-min…

Winds – An in Depth Tutorial on Making Your First Contribution to Open-Source Software

The team here at Stream enjoys building open-source sample applications to showcase the functionality of our API. Our perspective has always been that it’s better to demonstrate the capabilities of our offerings in a fully functional platform. In this case, leveraging Stream and …

Integrating Algolia Search in Winds – A Beautiful RSS & Podcast Application

Earlier this year, Stream launched Winds 2.0, the second iteration of our popular open-source and native application for macOS, Windows, and Linux, which provides an entirely new way to consume RSS feeds and Podcasts. If you haven’t used Winds, you can sign up at https://getstrea…

Takeaways on Building a React Based App with Electron

Earlier this year, Stream launched Winds 2.0, an open-source and native application for macOS, Windows, and Linux, which provides an entirely new way to consume RSS feeds and Podcasts. It was our first time building a native application, so we chose to go with Electron, a framewo…

Winds 2.1: Building Touch Bar Support for macOS in Electron with React

One of the newest and coolest innovations in the tech/hardware world as of late is the touch bar that Apple released on its MacBook Pro last year. As these machines have become more and more popular, more and more applications are utilizing the touch bar to interact with their us…

Announcing Winds 2.1 — More Features, Stability, and Pure Awesomeness 👏

Over the course of the past several weeks, our team has been mesmerized by the tremendous growth of Winds 2.0. Closing in on 5,500 GitHub Stars, Winds has quickly become the #1 open-source RSS & Podcast application on GitHub in the open-source community. Shortly after launching W…

Winds 2.0: It’s Time to Revive RSS

I love using RSS to follow the programming and tech news I care about. Unfortunately, the number of sites supporting RSS has been in rapid decline over the last few years. The reader ecosystem is slowly degrading as well. Facebook and Twitter’s dominance is now delivering its fin…

Winds 2.0 Beta – Now Available for Download

In case you haven’t already heard, the devrel team at Stream has been working on a really exciting project over the past couple months called Winds 2.0! Tl;Dr Winds is an open-source RSS reader and podcast player built with React & Stream. It’s not only free and open source, but …

Generating Waveforms for Podcasts in Winds 2.0

As developers at Stream, an API for building scalable newsfeeds and activity streams, my colleagues and I have been hard at work on creating Winds 2.0. This version of Winds is an open-source desktop app with support for RSS feeds and easy podcast listening, which we’re building …

Announcing Winds 2.0 — an Electron App with Support for RSS & Podcasts

In late 2016, we announced the release of Winds, an open-source RSS reader built with React, Redux, Sails, and Stream. The application was published on GitHub, accompanied by a fully hosted version on the GetStream.io domain. The project became so popular that GitHub Pull Request…

Winds – An Open Source & Personalized RSS Reader

Over the past few years, Stream has made scalable feed technology widely available to all developers. Today if you want to build a Twitter or Instagram-style app, you don’t need to reinvent solutions for scalable, personalized feeds. Personalized feeds offer a large opportunity t…