Show HN: Hacker News implemented using the new API

https://realtimehackernews.firebaseapp.com/

by dstaley • 12 years ago

90 23 12 years ago

realtimehackernews.firebaseapp.com

tlarkworthy• 12 years ago

I really hope this ends up in a recursion.

edit: yay!

andy_ppp• 12 years ago

Me too...

Fuzzwah• 12 years ago

The header links to a 404:

https://realtimehackernews.firebaseapp.com/news

dstaley3• 12 years ago

Fixed! Thanks for letting me know.

mayop100• 12 years ago

Very cool, and looks like it only took you a few minutes of work! Nice job. Others might want to check out the code: https://github.com/dstaley/realtime-hacker-news

giancarlostoro• 12 years ago

Glad you used Ember.JS, I love that framework, it's what actually got me to change my mind about JavaScript altogether. Love how in a few minutes you can pull together a rather responsive website.

EGreg2• 12 years ago

You should try Q!

http://platform.qbix.com/

oneweekwonder• 12 years ago

Followed the link, tried to create a account, under "for business"...

And it asked for my cellphone number?!

I have left my cellphone number a year ago, I could not handle the spam calls. Yes I do have a sim card in my mobile but I actively don't want to remember it and only use it for the data, I don't share the number, except for my so and mother.

But back to the point, there was no other option to login, why only cell phone, did I miss something?

coherentpony• 12 years ago

Is it just me or does it seem slower?

qq66• 12 years ago

Of course it should be slower, it's routing everything through a third-party service.

dstaley3• 12 years ago

The entire page is generated on the client side, so it makes sense that it would feel a bit slower.

zzmp• 12 years ago

Are you able to show the comment counts as well?

dstaley3• 12 years ago

In theory, yes. However the comment counts aren't part of the item's JSON, which only includes top-level comments. So I'd need to retrieve all the top-level comments, and then all of the children comments for every comment. Doable, yes, but I'd need to take a while to think about how to do it efficiently.

jtymes• 12 years ago

I made a basic Angular version with comments: https://jtymes.firebaseapp.com/

The 'Top', 'New', etc. don't work because those aren't implemented in the API yet.

Source: https://github.com/jtymes/hn-fire

general_failure• 12 years ago

Great choice to use Ember!

hswolff• 12 years ago

I just sprinted and re-created this in AngularJS as well.

Took me 2 hours from start to finish.

Demo: https://hn-ng.firebaseapp.com/

Source: https://github.com/hswolff/hn-ng

Lord_Zero• 12 years ago

Thanks to your app, TIL about Firebase. Really neat service. Currently the way id do it in ASP.NET using SignalR, but this could finally take two large chunks out of my stack. Especially the auth chunk.

I would miss Entity Framework and Web API 2 though.

icholy• 12 years ago

There's lots of errors showing up in the console

http://i.imgur.com/rQGweR8.png

huhtenberg• 12 years ago

Load time is 3.55s vs 1.11s of the original.

pluma• 12 years ago

It's using an external API. Not surprising.

mnw21cam• 12 years ago

Am I supposed to be seeing something other than a header over a blank page?

insin• 12 years ago

Here's a React version with collapsible comments:

http://insin.github.io/react-hn

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