Follow your friends on HN. The missing frontend for Hacker News.
Hacker News is one of the most visited news and discussion sites in the startup and tech industry. However, the site lacks the look and features you would expect from a modern website. HNselect brings social feautures to HN through a Chrome Extension that contextualizes the site's content.
HNselect highlights stories and comments that are relevant to you. The sidebar provides a functional UI with a newsfeed showing stories of the people you chose to follow. The main HN site is manipulated highlighting new stories and comments by people you follow. Click the "+" symbol next to a story to bookmark it and its comments context. Click the "+" symbol next to a username to follow this user. Login through Twitter to easily find your friends on HN. We parsed HN users' about pages to identify their Twitter handles and match them to their HN usernames.
npm install # installs node packages
bower install # installs bower dependencies
gulp # when making changes to the extension's scriptsDownload the Chrome Extension from the Chrome Web Store
Chrome Extension that injects itself into the Hacker News website when accessing the page. Upon load, the initial newsfeed is served by our backend (Repo). The newsfeed is then updated in realtime with the client listening for new items from the Hacker News Firebase API (Repo).
- Notifications: See comments to the stories and comments you posted
- Live site updates: Update HN site with new stories and indicate when new comments are posted
- Inline commmenting in the sidebar
- Ability to view newsfeed content by keywords instead of following
- Live update view when new following are added or stories are bookmarked (currently reload is necessary)
- Karma, following and follower numbers not displaying yet
- Connection tab needs to be restyled
- Sidebar to stay open/closed upon site reload
- Reload of page should not rerequest newsfeed load from server (move from contentscript to background.js)
- Cleanup of codebase
This projected is licensed under the terms of the MIT license