Hacker News Built with Angularjs(hn-ng.firebaseapp.com)
hn-ng.firebaseapp.com
Hacker News Built with Angularjs
https://hn-ng.firebaseapp.com/
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I don't think this is a very good example of a demo angular app. Hackernews isn't an app, it's a site. It works so well simply because it is such a simple site. If you're going to build it in angular, might I suggest you add some functional benefit to using the tool.
The API has comment support, I'd love to see that. However as of now it's read-only. To make it read-write you'd need to fully integrate firebase. This is just a firebase mirror of the data. Discussion forums with threaded comments don't really make sense for realtime updates. I don't think they have Windowing functions either, so you'd get only the latest x comments or the best x comments, and you couldn't "get more".
I agree. From what I could see, it didn't look like it offered any extra or special functionality. I had expected it to do more dynamic loading of things like comments (like a nice transition over to a comments display or something similar).
The main benefit seems to be that it's based on a Firebase backend and updates in realtime.
I'm behind a corporate firewall that (for some reason) blocks firebaseio.com - with the result that I get a blank page.
It would be worth at least letting users know why they don't get any data displayed.
It would be worth at least letting users know why they don't get any data displayed.
Yep, looks about right for Angular: flashy but not-particularly-useful functionality (dynamic real time updates) while sacrificing basic web usability (blinky-blink loads, strange back button behavior, etc.)