Inbox App Scaffold - HTML5
NOTE: This scaffold is currently not actively maintained, and may need some TLC. Please feel free to use it and send us a pull request if you fix anything or add a feature, though. :)
The Inbox HTML5 Scaffold is a full-featured mail client built on top of the Inbox API. It is a client-side AngularJS application that leverages the Inbox Javascript SDK, and is intended to be a foundation for you to build your own mail client or add features that you've always wanted!
The Inbox HTML5 App Scaffold includes support for:
- Authenticating entirely client-side
- Browsing your Inbox, Drafts, and Archive
- Viewing threads
- Viewing and downloading message attachments
- Archiving threads
- Filtering threads
- Replying to threads with attachments
- Saving, editing, and sending drafts
Yes, it even has a dark theme:
By Developers, For Developers
The Inbox HTML5 Scaffold is intended for developers - to use it, you need an Inbox Developer Program membership or a copy of the open-source Inbox Sync Engine. When you download or fork the Inbox HTML5 Scaffold, you'll need to add your Inbox App ID before you can connect your account.
Try it online
Try out the Inbox HTML5 Scaffold right now! It's purely client-side javascript, so we hosted it on Github Pages.
Using your Inbox account
Already have an Inbox account? You'll need to create a new app in the developer console and add https://inboxapp.github.io/inbox-scaffold-html5/ to the callback URLs. Then, set your App ID to try it out.
Using your local Inbox instance
Already running the sync engine and API server on your local machine? Set your App ID to localhost and the Inbox HTML5 Scaffold will connect to http://localhost:5555 instead of our API endpoint.
Getting Started
git clone --recursive [email protected]:inboxapp/inbox-scaffold-html5.git
cd inbox-scaffold-html5
git submodule init
git submodule update
sudo apt-get install node npm gulp bower
npm update
npm run-script postinstall
bower install
foreman start --port 6000Then, follow the instructions under "Try it online" to set up your App ID. You can connect to our servers or to your own local endpoint.
Roadmap
The Inbox HTML5 Scaffold is fairly simple and is intended to be a solid foundation. It's built to be easily hackable and extendable. You can fork it and build an entirely different email experience, or write an Angular directive that adds features and functionality you need.
In the future, we plan to:
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Wrap the HTML5 Scaffold in Atom-Shell and rewrite key Angular services to use an SQLite cache, offline action queue, and more.
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Clearly define integration points for you to create your own directives and services that extend the client.
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Refactor things for greater hackability.
We'd love for you to help us achieve these goals - check out the Contributing section for more information. If these things get you really excited, check out our Jobs page!
##Contributing
We'd love your help making the Inbox HTML5 Scaffold better! You can join the Inbox Google Group for project updates and feature discussion. We also hang out in ##inbox on irc.freenode.net, or you can email [email protected].
Please sign the Contributor License Agreement before submitting patches. (It's similar to other projects, like NodeJS.)
A more detailed guide on development, testing and contributing code is available in CONTRIBUTING.md.
##License
Please see the file LICENSE.md for the copyright licensing conditions attached to this codebase.