HackerWeb

A simply readable Hacker News app for iOS and Android.

Read about the story here: Building HackerWeb for iOS.

Preview

iOS

Android

Development

Requirements

• React Native
• React Native Package Manager
• Node.js
• Xcode
• iOS 9
• Android SDK API 23 (minimum support: 21)

Getting started

• npm install - Install all dependencies
• rnpm link - Linking all native dependencies

Implementations

• Alt - the Flux thing
• htmlparser2 - for parsing the comments HTML
• url-parse - for extracting domains out of story URLs
• iOS
  • react-native-safari-view - the reason why iOS 9 is the minimum requirement
• Android
  • react-native-chrome-custom-tabs - same as SafariView for iOS, but for Chrome
  • react-native-android-share - for sharing

Components

• LoadingIndicator - inspired by react-native-activity-indicator-ios
• HTMLView - inspired by react-native-htmlview, react-native-htmltext and react-native-html-render
• react-native-cache-store - for local caching

Similar apps

• HackerNews-React-Native
• ReactNativeHackerNews

License

MIT.