react-hn

A React & react-router-powered implementation of Hacker News using its Firebase API.

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
Manual highlighting of the X most recent comments to catch up on threads you were reading elsewhere
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 sessionStorage for 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
Delayed comment detection - so tense! Who will it be? What will they say?

Install dependencies:

npm install