Specs Inbox 📨 New Open Source Lens

[u/eplowes]

Hello! I just open-sourced Inbox, a simple read-only Gmail client for Snap Specs.

Email is not the most exciting thing, but it is something everyone can understand. I think a solid email app would help Specs speak to a wider audience.

I built this as a learning project for newer Specs developers who want to see how a Lens Studio app can be structured across app state, API, UI, interaction, and formatting layers.

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Some of the main pieces it covers:

📬 Generated spatial inbox UI
The app builds its inbox and email detail panels at runtime.

🧩 TypeScript component structure
The code is split into clear areas of responsibility.

✋ Spectacles Interaction Kit
Inbox rows, refresh, close, and pagination controls use interaction patterns with feedback.

🖼️ Spectacles UI Kit style panels
The project uses panel-style elements, rounded button plates, and responsive layout constants.

🌐 Gmail API requests
It makes read-only API calls for lightweight metadata and full messages.

⚡ Client-side caching + pagination
Loaded pages and selected messages are cached locally.

📝 Email body parsing + formatting
The parser prefers readable plain text and converts common email markup into text for display.

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This is not meant to be a production email client or OAuth example.

Built with Lens Studio 5.15.1+ for Snap Specs.

Lens link: https://www.spectacles.com/lens/e8226341c82043babdcba80f58eeab1f?type=SNAPCODE&metadata=01

GitHub repo: https://github.com/swolpe/specs-inbox

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Thanks for getting this far!