Hacker News App

Write an api served app application with React

The goal of this project is to write a simple custom implementation of the Hacker News at ycombinator https://news.ycombinator.com/news.

The main functional requirements are to use an API, asynchronous code, pagination and deployment to gh=pages.

The implementation of this website can be viewed here

initial design

API

Algolia API https://hn.algolia.com/api

Deployment on GitHub

  • gustomize root path to github repository root path in package.json

    • “homepage”: “http://{github-username}.github.io/{repo-name}”,

  • install gh-pages

    • npm install gh-pages –save-dev

  • add predeploy and deploy script to package.json. customize the gh-pages deply script

    • “predeploy” : “npm run build”,
    • “deploy” : “gh-pages -d build (–remote github)”,

  • commit and push to github

    • git add .
    • git commit -m “setup gh-pages”
    • git push

  • deploy

    • npm run deploy

GitHub

View Github