https://github.com/cheeaun/hackerweb-native

A simply readable Hacker News app for iOS & Android, built with React Native. V2 now over here https://github.com/cheeaun/hackerweb-native-2
https://github.com/cheeaun/hackerweb-native

android hacker-news hacker-news-client hacker-news-reader ios react react-native

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A simply readable Hacker News app for iOS & Android, built with React Native. V2 now over here https://github.com/cheeaun/hackerweb-native-2

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/cheeaun/hackerweb-native
• Owner: cheeaun
• Created: 2015-08-10T07:20:26.000Z (over 9 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2018-06-25T08:26:17.000Z (over 6 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-08-01T13:26:49.001Z (3 months ago)
• Topics: android, hacker-news, hacker-news-client, hacker-news-reader, ios, react, react-native
• Language: JavaScript
• Homepage: http://hackerwebapp.com/
• Size: 9.06 MB
• Stars: 183
• Watchers: 11
• Forks: 37
• Open Issues: 1
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md

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README

        
HackerWeb

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A simply readable Hacker News app for iOS and Android.

Read about the story here: [Building HackerWeb for iOS](http://cheeaun.com/blog/2016/03/building-hackerweb-ios/).

Preview

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### iOS

![Preview on iOS](media/hackerweb-preview-ios.gif)

### Android

![Preview on Android](media/hackerweb-preview-android.gif)

Development

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### Requirements

- [React Native](https://facebook.github.io/react-native/)

- [React Native Package Manager](https://github.com/rnpm/rnpm)

- [Node.js](https://nodejs.org/)

- [Xcode](https://developer.apple.com/xcode/)

- [iOS](https://www.apple.com/ios/) **9**

- Android SDK API **23** (minimum support: 21)

### Getting started

- `npm install` - Install all dependencies

- `rnpm link` - Linking all native dependencies

### Implementations

- [Alt](http://alt.js.org/) - the Flux thing

- [htmlparser2](https://github.com/fb55/htmlparser2) - for parsing the comments HTML

- [url-parse](https://github.com/unshiftio/url-parse) - for extracting domains out of story URLs

- **iOS**

  - [react-native-safari-view](https://github.com/naoufal/react-native-safari-view) - the reason why iOS 9 is the minimum requirement

- **Android**

  - [react-native-chrome-custom-tabs](https://github.com/dstaley/react-native-chrome-custom-tabs) - same as SafariView for iOS, but for Chrome

  - [react-native-android-share](https://github.com/haydenth/react-native-android-share) - for sharing

### Components

- `LoadingIndicator` - inspired by [react-native-activity-indicator-ios](https://github.com/pwmckenna/react-native-activity-indicator-ios)

- `HTMLView` - inspired by [react-native-htmlview](https://github.com/jsdf/react-native-htmlview), [react-native-htmltext](https://github.com/siuying/react-native-htmltext) and [react-native-html-render](https://github.com/soliury/react-native-html-render)

- [react-native-cache-store](https://github.com/cheeaun/react-native-cache-store) - for local caching

Similar apps

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- [HackerNews-React-Native](https://github.com/iSimar/HackerNews-React-Native)

- [ReactNativeHackerNews](https://github.com/jsdf/ReactNativeHackerNews)

License

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[MIT](http://cheeaun.mit-license.org/).