React-hn
Consumer and social
hacker news client
SHOW HN2014
How HN took it
3 positive, 3 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 2 critical, out of 9 comments about the project. Thread score +0.06.
Performance: 0 for, 2 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 againstDocs: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Liked the spinner loading state
From 1 comment
It feels a lot nicer to me with those spinners.
baddox on HN
Enthusiastic reception
From 1 comment
Woooooooohooo!
me_so_happy on HN
Objections
Initial loading flash of no content followed by iterative item loading
From 1 comment
I like it and I very much like react.js, but there's a very bad flash of no content followed by quick iterative loading, a frequent problem with pure JavaScript applications. I…
swartkrans on HN
Auto-updating needs usability care, such as a 'x new comments' indicator
From 1 comment
Auto-updating has a lot of potential but also a few usability concerns. You'll find on other auto-updating comment systems that "x new comments" is introduced so that you don't…
fudged71 on HN
Requests
Show 'x new comments' instead of auto-inserting updates
From 1 comment
Auto-updating has a lot of potential but also a few usability concerns. You'll find on other auto-updating comment systems that "x new comments" is introduced so that you don't…
fudged71 on HN
Add animations or color to show vote and position changes
From 1 comment
Auto-updating has a lot of potential but also a few usability concerns. You'll find on other auto-updating comment systems that "x new comments" is introduced so that you don't…
fudged71 on HN
Pre-render initial HTML on the server
From 1 comment
The issue is more likely the timing of the data arrival than just because render is being called multiple times. It would be pretty easy to fix. I actually have been really…
boucher on HN
Questions
Are items fetched in parallel?
From 1 comment
I agree (although this doesn't really have anything to do with React itself—the app just shouldn't render page until items are loaded—are they fetched in parallel?)
danabramov on HN
Alternatives named
Official Hacker News site
From 1 comment
I like it and I very much like react.js, but there's a very bad flash of no content followed by quick iterative loading, a frequent problem with pure JavaScript applications. I…
swartkrans on HN