A recreation of the Hacker News website written in TypeScript and built using Aurelia, with webpack as a module bundler.

A running demonstration can be found here.

• 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.

• 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.

The following scripts are configured to run via npm:

• npm start or npm run server:dev
  • 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 server:prod
  • Starts a local-web-server at http://localhost:8080 that serves the ./dist directory.
• npm run clean
  • Cleans the ./dist directory.

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub.

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