React app using the hackernews API
Hacker News is a website where people from around the world share and discuss websites and topics, generally about startups and technology. It's a great way to stay up to date on ideas, trends, and news in the tech industry. Hacker News has a great REST API, with documentation available here: https://github.com/HackerNews/API Your challenge is to build a read-only clone of the hacker news frontend using that API.
Feel free to adapt these required features to fit the types of jobs you are applying for. If you're in Data Science, consider doing some analysis on the list of the best stories from today and their comments. If you're looking to get into mobile development, make a mobile app or PWA out of these features.
- A list of the best stories from today, including a link to the story and its comments page
- A comments page for each story, listing at least the first level of comments for the story
- Listing all levels of comments for each story
- User profile pages for the author of each comment/story
- Other features you can come up with (Word clouds, statistics for the week vs all time, a mobile app, the sky's the limit)