hacker-news-pwas

I was researching frameworks for building progressive web apps and stumbled over "Hacker News as a PWA" (https://github.com/tastejs/hacker-news-pwas).

I just built a Hacker News reader (https://brutalisthackernews.com) to meet the challenge of building a site with only Vanilla JS and no libraries and to complete an art project based on glitch art, cyberpunk, brutalist web design. I have noticed that https://hnpwa.com exists, but the GitHub repo (https://github.com/tastejs/hacker-news-pwas/blob/master/CONT...) is archived, and the site appears to be no longer active. Are there any new sites like this to submit HN readers?

I've been using and working on my custom hacker news frontend for a few years now. As the name suggests, it only has minor "improvements" compared to the official website. It has a dark theme, (IMO) better layout and typography and it's a SPA with server side rendering. Currently you cannot login, vote and post comments. Tech used: - Angular (Universal) - https://github.com/tastejs/hacker-news-pwas (which has been archived as I just noticed)

I will start looking into how to make the code open source before launching the project officially! Unfortunately I won't be able to submit the project to https://hnpwa.com since they only allow (more or less) direct copies of HackerNews to their directory. [1] [1] https://github.com/tastejs/hacker-news-pwas

This is interesting and at the very least novel. Kudos for that. Can you walk an extra mile and implement your version for https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld & https://github.com/tastejs/hacker-news-pwas. This helps to benchmark how intuitive is the framework for creating complex apps.

Genuinely can't thank everybody for all the feedback. A lot of you mentioned that we're not comparing apples to apples here, and you couldn't be more right. I take full responsibility for this, and I really apologize if the site's design made it look that way. Each of the implementations were built at a completely different time by different authors and are not representative as official library implementations at all. In no way was it our intent to make it seem like a reference of performance comparison between the different libraries, so again I apologize if it comes across that way. We do need to standardize each of the apps so that they can actually be compared, but until then we'll need to make sure that things are more transparent. In the next few days we'll add some changes to how we display each of the implementations for this [1]

Apparently, this site isn't intended to be a contest/perf-comparison. It's supposed to show that solid PWAs are doable with all of these frameworks. Looks like the authors are working on clarifying this: https://github.com/tastejs/hacker-news-pwas/issues/36

Yep you're 100% right, that's something we've discussed [1] and definitely something we still need to do [2]. [1] https://github.com/tastejs/hacker-news-pwas/issues/7#issueco... [2] https://github.com/tastejs/hacker-news-pwas/issues/4

Not all of the implementations are using the same API hence why the data isn't displayed the same on each :P We've discussed standardizing the specifications [1] for each of the apps which covers how they're hosted, how they fetch their data, etc... That's something we still need to do so hopefully sometime soon we'll have each of the apps standardized similarly. [1] https://github.com/tastejs/hacker-news-pwas/issues/7#issueco...