niconizer

What is this

niconizer is a simple desktop application that has two functionalities below.

• Overlay short HTML content directly on the screen.
  • The content flows from right to left on the screen and disappears.
• Local WebSocket server to receive the content.

It can be used in combination with clients that send contents.

Getting started

Installation

$ npm i -g niconizer
$ niconizer

Then the WebSocket server starts up on your computer and listens for connections.

Available clients are in the section bellow.

Tray Icon Menu

• Start
  • Open a transparent window that shows the content.
• Stop
  • Close the window and pause displaying the content.
• Quit
  • Quit niconizer.

Clients

• Slack
  • niconizer-slack
• Twitter
  • niconizer-tweetdeck

Develop client

Currently, no authentication is implemented.

Node.js

// WebSocket implementation for nodejs
const WebSocket = require("ws");

// niconizer server
const ws = new WebSocket("ws://localhost:25252/");

// any html content
ws.send("<b>Hello, world!</b>");

Browser (assuming use from userscripts such as Greasemonkey)

const ws = new WebSocket("ws://localhost:25252/");

ws.send("<b>Hello, world!</b>");

Shell Script

wscat -c ws://localhost:25252 -x "$(jq -r '.name' package.json)"

Contributing

Lint, Format, Build

$ npm run build

Build, Run

$ npm start

Package

$ npm run package