A recreation of the Hacker News website written in TypeScript and built with Aurelia.

Demo

Features

• News list with filters for the top/newest/best stories.
• Topic view with collapsible comment threads.
• Responsive design for tablet and mobile platforms.
• User profile pages.
• Improved pagination.

Components

• Webpack as the build system.
• Aurelia as the client framework.
• TypeScript as the primary programming language.
• Sassy CSS as the stylesheet language, following the 7-1 pattern and the “Block Element Modifier” methodology.
• Firebase as a data store for the Hacker News API.

Building

The following scripts are configured to run via npm:

• npm start
  • Runs the webpack-dev-server at http://localhost:8080
• npm run build
  • Builds the production distribution and places it under the ./dist directory.
• npm run clean
  • Cleans the ./dist directory.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub.

License

This project is available under the terms of the ISC license. See the LICENSE file for the copyright information and licensing terms.