Command line app to read top Hacker News posts

Read top Hackernews posts right from your command line.

How to use?

Install Node js. Hackernewscmd requires Node.js v4+ to run.

Follow this link for detailed step by step installation process.

Once you have installed node and npm you are ready to download and install the hackernewscmd using below command.

$ npm install -g hackernewscmd

Once installation is successful run the following command to get the top posts.

$ hackernews --posts 10

Above command will get the top 10 posts. You can specify any number here less than 100.

Server - Node.js Testing - Mocha with Chai.

Important Packages used

request - to make http requests top hackernews api

optimist - for processing command line arguments

cacheManager - for the basic caching of files in case of repeated requests.

Clone the repo

$ cd hackernewscmd
$ npm install
$ node hackernews.js --post 12

Run tests

$ npm test

MIT

Author: @SoorajChandran Date: 5 Dec 2017