mdstart / frontendchallenge

Backbench Frontend Developer Challenge

Challenge

Give a fresh, interesting spin to exploring HackerNews articles. If you're not familiar with it, please head on to https://news.ycombinator.com/, it's an interesting place for developers to hang around anyways!

The simple and public API that they expose (https://github.com/HackerNews/API) let's you retrieve just about anything happening there. To be specific, their API lets you query Show, Ask, and Jobs articles as well as meta categories like New, Top and Best stories, and all the comments people post.

Things we're watching out for in your application:

• User Experience: We're talking about how easy it is to jump between categories and previewing articles and discussions.
• Design: We understand it's part of the user experience, but we'd like to stress on the design part specifically to understand your taste for typography, proportions, colors and everything design.
• Frameworks: We'd love to see a single page application built using any popular JavaScript framework (we love React!), and it's a good plus if you use some form of bundling like Webpack, Browserify or anything. Another great plus would be the use of CSS frameworks like LESS/SASS.
• Code: We'd like to see a simple codebase that is easy to understand and follow (the developer version of User Experience)

If you're up for the challenge, please fork this repository and complete all of your work in the forked repository.

Tip: GitHub pages (https://pages.github.com/) and Netlify (https://www.netlify.com/) are amazing free services to showcase your work live. Put up a link in your repository's README or in the description.

Note: All of the specifics mentioned like React, Webpack, LESS etc... are completely optional, so feel free to submit just about anything that you've done to improve on the existing HackerNews, see it just as a way to get to know each other technically.

Happy hacking!