Hacker News Reader App

Opinionated build of HackerNews front end.

Screenshots

Features

• Grid view to make use of larger screens.
• Infinite scroll for feeds.
• Links in posts open in new tab.
• Dark & light theme available.
• Hit box easier to click on mobile.
• View top 50 root comments only by default, click to expand individual commments.
• Keyboard shortcuts: Ctrl/CMD+K to search, Shift+(first letter of feed) to go to certain feed e.g. Shift+T = Top feed
• Installable as PWA.

Stack

• SvelteKit 2.0 & Svelte 4.
• DaisyUI and TailwindCSS for styling.
• Lucide for icons
• Using Firebase JS SDK to query the official HackerNews API. A web socket is shipped to client for rendering. No SSR.
• Algolia Search API to search.