Hacktoberfest React Project

Trey Huffine — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 15:18:24 +0000

Hacktoberfest 2018 Project

Build a Hacker News clone using React and Redux. Collaborate with other developers.

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Project Overview

A Hacker News clone (in night mode!) using all open source technology.

Try it out: Download the Chrome Extension

Website: View on gitconnected

GitHub: Follow the Source Code

Hacktoberfest 2018 is underway! Join the developer community from gitconnected in working together to build a Hacker News clone for your Hacktoberfest project. Use your favorite frontend library (or follow along with our solution using React) and utilize the open source Hacker News API for your data.

Our community will be collaborating and working together to help everyone become a better developer. Join us if you're interested in learning web development.

What You'll Learn

React
Redux
Styled Components
CSS Grid
CSS Flex
CSS Animations
Using an API
Axios for network requests
Redux middleware
Create React App to bootstrap a project
localStorage for persisting state

Getting Started

First initialize the project. Our solution uses Create React App, but feel free to use whatever you want, even static HTML.

Review the Hacker New API documentation. You will need the /topstories endpoint to get the list of the story IDs and the /item endpoint to get the data for each story individually.

Finally, get your project into production. We chose to use a Chrome Extension, but you can host it in any manner than you wish. GitHub pages is a great option. The final solution should show a list of the top stories on Hacker News.

Join the Slack channel to collaborate and get help. This project can be difficult, so make sure you work on it with some friends!