BetterNews - A Fullstack Hacker News Clone

This project is a full-stack clone of Hacker News, that implements the core features like posting, commenting (with nested comments), and username/password authentication. I've deployed this project on Fly.io, but deployment with Docker is also supported.

Tech Stack

• Hono - backend server (like Express.js, but faster)
• Bun - package manager (Node.js alternative)
• Drizzle ORM - database ORM library (like Prisma)
• Postgres SQL - backend database
• Tanstack Router, Query, and Form - Tanstack Query is a data management library and Tanstack Form is a form state manager
• Zod - validations
• TypeScript - static typing for JavaScript

Usage

To use this project, you will first need a running Postgres server. You can set this up with Docker.

Development

1. Clone the repo
2. Run bun install
3. Add in environment variables to .env
4. Run the development servers for both backend and frontend:

• bun dev for the backend
• cd frontend && bun dev for the frontend

Production

1. Clone the repo
2. Add in environment variables to .env
3. Build the frontend cd frontend && bun run build
4. Run bun server/index.ts

Goals

I've tried to implement the core features of Hacker News while creating a full-stack application.

Credits

• Build a HackerNews Clone