README.md

Hacker News Reader using Vue.js

Link to Application

A hacker news reader pwa (Progressive Web App) built using Vue.js and Vue-router.

Features

• Performance Scores

  • LightHouse: 91/100 LightHouse Link
  • Faster_3G: 3.4s WebpPageTest Link
  • 3G_EM: 4.3s WebpPageTest Link

• Built using Vue.js & Vue-router

  • route-level code splitting
  • preload / prefetch resources
  • dns-prefetch for api endpoint
  • api data preloading

• Progressive Web App

  • app manifest
  • service worker using SWPrecachePlugin
  • app shell

• Single-file vue components

  • hot reload in development
  • css extraction for production

• Hosted using Github Pages

• Uses node-hnapi

Development

# install dependencies
$ npm install

# serve locally with HMR at localhost:3001
$ npm run dev

# build for production
$ npm run build

# build for production with bundle analyzer report
$ npm run build --report

ToDo

• API data caching using service worker (networkFirst strategy)
• Conditionally load fetch & promise polyfills
• Implement PRPL
• Server Side Rendering (Maybe)
• Add Tests