GitHub – Florian/HNClient: Desktop Client for Hacker News

This app lets you comfortably read Hacker News without having to open an endless amount of tabs anymore. You can choose articles to view from a sidebar and can optionally read articles and their comments next to each other on a split screen. The app works on Mac, Linux and Windows.

(Downloads | Website)

• You can easily choose articles to view and switch to the comments, no more endless new tabs for HN
• Optional split screen: View articles and their comments next to each other
• Easily navigate the App with Vim like keyboard shortcuts
• Comments are foldable
• Things that are overlooked by most HN apps weren't forgotten, stuff like displaying HN polls, rendering PDFs or not showing a website for Ask HN posts
• Automatically loads new articles if you scrolled down far enough
• It's Open Source, you can change it however you like! :)

• Electron
• ES6, React and Redux
• Stylus and css-modules
• Webpack
• JavaScript Standard style
• Mostly follows the conventions of the electron-react-boilerplate
• Uses the nice node-hnapi which wraps HN's official API. HN's API itself is sadly not very usable so far, e.g. to fetch all 200 comments of a thread we'd need to do 200 requests, which would greatly degrade user experience. Thanks to node-hnapi this app does not need to do that.

Currently the Windows and Linux builds don't use an installer program to bundle everything into a single file. I guess that would be the optimal packaging but I don't have any experience programming for Windows / Linux. So I'm hoping someone might contribute if it's important to them :)

Please follow the JavaScript Standard style!

While I implemented all of the features I definitely wanted, there's also a list of feature ideas.