A fast, minimalist tech news aggregator powered by Cloudflare Workers. ByteBento aggregates headlines in real-time from top tech sources, filters them by publisher, and lets users save articles to read later or export in JSON.

🔗 Visit the live site:
https://bytebento.com

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• 🌐 Demo
  • Screenshot
  • GIF
• ✨ Features
• 💻 Tech Stack
• 🏁 Getting Started
  • Prerequisites
  • Installation
  • Development
  • Deployment
• 🗺️ Roadmap
• 🤝 Contributing
• 📁 Repo Structure
• 📄 License
• 🙏 Acknowledgements

• 📰 Real-time headlines from multiple tech sources (Ars Technica, Hacker News, Product Hunt, etc.)
• 🎛 Source filtering for quick focus
• 💾 Read Later list with export/download functionality
• 🌙 Dark mode & Focus mode for distraction-free reading
• 🔁 Graceful fallbacks if any source is down
• ⚡️ Lightning-fast serverless architecture

🌀 Hosted entirely via Cloudflare Workers – combines serverless API logic and static content delivery in a single deployment.

• Platform & Hosting: Cloudflare Workers (API + static assets)
• Language & Frameworks: Vanilla JavaScript, HTML, CSS
• Storage: Browser LocalStorage
• Version Control: Git & GitHub
• No frameworks, no build step — just clean, readable code!

• Node.js (for local Worker simulation, optional)
• Wrangler CLI (install instructions and CLI reference)
• A free Cloudflare account with Workers enabled

1. Clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/byte-bento/bytebento.git
cd bytebento

2. Install Wrangler (if not already)

npm install -g @cloudflare/wrangler

You can preview the site and Workers locally using Wrangler.

# Log into Cloudflare
wrangler login
# Simulate Workers + static assets locally
wrangler dev

Open http://127.0.0.1:8787 in your browser to see live changes.

Once you're happy with changes:

# Publish to your Cloudflare account
wrangler publish

These features are in the works or on the roadmap - tracked over on the GitHub Issues page:

• 🔍 Live search to filter articles by keyword
• 🧵 Add more tech news sources (including RSS-based ones)
• 📝 About page or mini changelog to track progress

Want to improve ByteBento or suggest a new feature? Awesome! We welcome all kinds of contributions! To get started:

1. Fork the repo
2. Create a branch (git checkout -b feature/awesome-thing)
3. Make your changes & commit with clear messages
4. Push to your fork (git push origin feature/awesome-thing)
5. Open a Pull Request against main

Be sure to:

• Review existing issues and add your thoughts
• Label any bugs you find or feature ideas you want to tackle
• Follow consistent code style (ESLint rules if you introduce new JS)

🪄 Whether it’s code, docs, or just ideas - contributions of all kinds are appreciated, so thank you for helping make ByteBento better!

/workers → Cloudflare Worker scripts
/src → Static site content
/scripts → Utility tools (RSS parsing, filtering, etc.)

This project is licensed under the MIT License.
Feel free to use, share, and remix—just give credit where it’s due.

• Inspired by the simplicity of serverless dashboards
• Thanks to Cloudflare Workers for the magic edge compute
• Hats off to all open-source libraries and contributors
• Made with ☕, 🧠, and 💻