HN Tail

HN Tail is a web application to tail comments for HackerNews.

HN Tail helps you to track the latest comments on any given HN thread without having to visually parse the threads to find the latest replies by creating a "feed" where new comments will be appended as they happen.

It is an attempt to solve this problem

And also, it is a side project I build just for fun, trying out new things, and learning purposes.

HNTail is free, open source, and available at hntail.github.io

Using it

When browsing any thread of comments in HN, such as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19212822, change the domain in the URL in your browser from news.ycombinator.com to hntail.github.io so that it looks like https://hntail.github.io/item?id=19212822, or to localhost:3000 or your own domain if instead you are running it on your own.

Running HN Tail locally

At some point, the package will be published in the NPM registry, until then:

1. Ensure you have a recent version of Node and NPM
2. Clone this repository and run npm install --only=production
3. Run npm run build
4. Run NODE_ENV=production npm start. The application should be available at http://localhost:3000

Development environment

1. Clone the project
2. Run npm install to install all the dependencies
3. Run npm run dev.