A React & react-router-powered implementation of Hacker News using its Firebase API.

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

• Supports display of all item types: stories, jobs, polls and comments
• Basic user profiles
• Collapsible comments
• "Realtime" updates (free via Firebase!)
• Comment counts and last visit times for stories are cached in localStorage
• New comments are highlighted:
  • Comments since your last visit to an item
  • New comments which load while you're reading an item
• Stories with new threads (top-level replies) are marked on list pages
• Stories can be marked as read to remove highighting from new comments
• "new" and "comments" sections driven by the Changed Items API.

Feature requests are welcome!

Install gulp (if you don't already have it) and dependencies:

npm install -g gulp
npm install

• gulp dist - builds from scratch into the /dist directory.
• gulp watch - watches JavaScript in /src, linting, transpiling, browserifying and copying to /dist on every change.

Pass a --production flag to use minified JavaScript.

The version of reactfire used in the live build has been hand-tweaked to work around an issue when browerifying it.