react-hn
A React &
react-router-powered implementation of
Hacker News using its
Firebase API.
Live version: https://react-hn.appspot.com/
Features
- Supports display of all item types:
stories,
jobs,
polls and
comments - Basic user profiles
- Collapsible comment threads, with child counts
- "Realtime" updates (free via Firebase!)
- Last visit details for stories are cached in
localStorage - New comments are highlighted:
- Comments since your last visit to an item
- New comments which load while you're reading an item
- New comments in collapsed threads
- Automatic or manual collapsing of comment threads which don't contain any new
comments - Stories with new comments are marked on list pages
- Stories can be marked as read to remove highighting from new comments
- "comments" sections driven by the Changed Items API
- Story listing pages are cached in
sessionStoragefor quick back button usage
and pagination in the same session - Configurable settings:
- auto collapse - automatically collapse comment threads without new comments
on page load - show reply links - show "reply" links to Hacker News
- show dead - show items flagged as dead
- show deleted - show comments flagged as deleted in threads
- auto collapse - automatically collapse comment threads without new comments
- Delayed comment detection - so tense! Who will it be? What will they say?
Building
Install dependencies:
npm install
npm scripts
npm start- start development servernpm run build- build into thepublic/directorynpm run lint- lintsrc/npm run lint:fix- lintsrc/and auto-fix issues where possiblenpm run precache- generates Service Worker inpublic/directory