TypeScript Course Curriculum - Hacker News Clone

Info

This is the repository for UI.dev's "TypeScript" course curriculum project.

For more information on the course, visit ui.dev/typescript.

Project

This is a (soft) "Hacker News" clone.

You can view the final project at hn.ui.dev

For the solution, I chose to build the project using vanilla JavaScript DOM APIs and Webpack to bundle the code. You could go that route; You could also try to build the project as a webserver using NodeJS. The only requirement is that you use TypeScript.

This course doesn't cover using TypeScript with front-end frameworks, like React, Angular, Vue, or Svelte. This is because the type definitions for these packages can be a little complicated and I didn't want to over-complicate the course. If you are feeling ambitious, feel free to try building this project with the framework of your choice.

Solution

If you get stuck, you can view my solution by checking out the solution branch.

Approaches

There are a few different ways you can approach this, each with varying difficulties.

• Hardest: Look at the finished project and build it. This is obviously the hardest approach but the one you'll gain the most learning from. The only thing that you'll need is the documentation for the Hacker News API.

• Easiest: Take 10-15 minutes to walk through my code. Notice how I approached different problems and how you may or may not want to do something similar. From there, start building and reference my project only as you need it.

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Alex Anderson