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Show HN: A Hacker News demo in NX, with real-time updates and animations

17 points by thenewestkid 10y ago

thenewestkid 10y ago
Hi, is the DNS outage still a problem? Could you please let me know in a comment if the link is not working for you? Thanks a lot!
- zbuttram 10y ago
  Definitely still a problem here on the US west coast. Also: https://www.dynstatus.com/ https://www.dynstatus.com/
  - thenewestkid 10y ago
    Thanks the info and the link! These are some NX related links in case someone is interested and can't open GitHub (they might work for you). The live demo of the app: https://nx-hacker-news.github.io https://nx-hacker-news.github.io, Home page and docs: http://nx-framework.com http://nx-framework.com or http://nx-nxframework.rhcloud.com http://nx-nxframework.rhcloud.com (to avoid CloudFlare)
    - throwanem 10y ago
      Baltimore here. Can't resolve either host right now. ETA: ...that said, looking at the Google results for "nx framework", one has to wonder about the quality and value of something that's touted with trumped-up rhetoric like "the best client-side JavaScript framework".
      - thenewestkid 10y ago
        Valid point, I did that for SEO and I don't think it had much success according to the stats. Going to change it now, thanks. Edit: Changed it to this. 'NX is a small client-side framework built with ES6 and Web Components. It features routing, data-binding and animations among other things.'
- FilthyAnalyst 10y ago
  Still out in Arizona.
- cordite 10y ago
  Not working in north midwest
- sowhatquestion 10y ago
  DNS resolves for me now but the page doesn't load.
  - thenewestkid 10y ago
    Strange. Is it the GitHub page or NX home page (or the HN demo page)?
skaushik92 10y ago
Here's this comments page within the app itself: https://nx-hacker-news.github.io/story?id=12762530&type=top https://nx-hacker-news.github.io/story?id=12762530&type=top
ars 10y ago
NX is an API for remote X Window System. It's rather well known by that name. I would suggest a different name. Perhaps NXF.
- thenewestkid 10y ago
  A lot of people commented about similarly named projects in the recent past (mainly Nintendo NX). I am considering a rename along with the beta version coming out soon.
treve 10y ago
Pretty slow compared to the real thing. The NX website is also down :(
- thenewestkid 10y ago
  About the speed: HN provides a real-time API for SPAs like the NX app, but it is an old fashioned serve-ready-HTML page (a speedy one). I found the API they provide somewhat slower than the site itself. I think other HN SPA clones also suffer from this. About the site: It is working but things are sometimes not working at some places now because of the DNS attack (pages like GitHub and Twitter are also up and down today.)
kup0 10y ago
Hrm, 84KB NX site vs. 12KB regular site. Is there 72KB worth of features/improvement? I understand it's just a demo, and that even at 84KB, that is a relatively small size anyway, I'm just always curious when I see a site rebuilt in another tool and it balloons in size compared to the original. Is HN a site that even needs to be an SPA anyway? It's fun as a demo, but maybe this type of site isn't a prime candidate as a typical SPA use-case? Either way it's always fun to build something as an example or learning process, so please don't perceive my comments as having any ill will. Maybe all-in-all I'm just an old-school HTML/CSS guy that is admittedly having trouble in this new SPA world (a discussion HN has had ad nauseum, I know)
- thenewestkid 10y ago
  Hi! Thanks for the comment, I think it's pretty constructive. The site is bigger because it is a SPA. It loads every static asset on start, compared to the HN approach which loads only the current page. The NX framework itself is 12kb zipped and 10kb minzipped. I agree, that it is not a typical use case, but it is starting to become a standard thing for new frameworks (like todoMVC). The point is to implement something that others implement too, to give a fair comparison to users (code).
  - thenewestkid 10y ago
    After a second check: that extra 70kb (on top of the 12kb size of NX) is mostly from the FireBase and EventListener APIs that I use for real-time networking.
odbol_ 10y ago
A web framework that doesn't work on actual web browsers? What is the point of that? Supporting older browsers is like half the job.

17 points by thenewestkid 10y ago

Hi, is the DNS outage still a problem? Could you please let me know in a comment if the link is not working for you? Thanks a lot!

zbuttram 10y ago
Definitely still a problem here on the US west coast. Also: https://www.dynstatus.com/ https://www.dynstatus.com/
- thenewestkid 10y ago
  Thanks the info and the link! These are some NX related links in case someone is interested and can't open GitHub (they might work for you). The live demo of the app: https://nx-hacker-news.github.io https://nx-hacker-news.github.io, Home page and docs: http://nx-framework.com http://nx-framework.com or http://nx-nxframework.rhcloud.com http://nx-nxframework.rhcloud.com (to avoid CloudFlare)
  - throwanem 10y ago
    Baltimore here. Can't resolve either host right now. ETA: ...that said, looking at the Google results for "nx framework", one has to wonder about the quality and value of something that's touted with trumped-up rhetoric like "the best client-side JavaScript framework".
    - thenewestkid 10y ago
      Valid point, I did that for SEO and I don't think it had much success according to the stats. Going to change it now, thanks. Edit: Changed it to this. 'NX is a small client-side framework built with ES6 and Web Components. It features routing, data-binding and animations among other things.'
FilthyAnalyst 10y ago
Still out in Arizona.
cordite 10y ago
Not working in north midwest
sowhatquestion 10y ago
DNS resolves for me now but the page doesn't load.
- thenewestkid 10y ago
  Strange. Is it the GitHub page or NX home page (or the HN demo page)?

skaushik92 10y ago

Here's this comments page within the app itself: https://nx-hacker-news.github.io/story?id=12762530&type=top https://nx-hacker-news.github.io/story?id=12762530&type=top

ars 10y ago

NX is an API for remote X Window System. It's rather well known by that name. I would suggest a different name. Perhaps NXF.

thenewestkid 10y ago
A lot of people commented about similarly named projects in the recent past (mainly Nintendo NX). I am considering a rename along with the beta version coming out soon.

treve 10y ago

Pretty slow compared to the real thing. The NX website is also down :(

thenewestkid 10y ago
About the speed: HN provides a real-time API for SPAs like the NX app, but it is an old fashioned serve-ready-HTML page (a speedy one). I found the API they provide somewhat slower than the site itself. I think other HN SPA clones also suffer from this. About the site: It is working but things are sometimes not working at some places now because of the DNS attack (pages like GitHub and Twitter are also up and down today.)

kup0 10y ago

Hrm, 84KB NX site vs. 12KB regular site. Is there 72KB worth of features/improvement? I understand it's just a demo, and that even at 84KB, that is a relatively small size anyway, I'm just always curious when I see a site rebuilt in another tool and it balloons in size compared to the original. Is HN a site that even needs to be an SPA anyway? It's fun as a demo, but maybe this type of site isn't a prime candidate as a typical SPA use-case? Either way it's always fun to build something as an example or learning process, so please don't perceive my comments as having any ill will. Maybe all-in-all I'm just an old-school HTML/CSS guy that is admittedly having trouble in this new SPA world (a discussion HN has had ad nauseum, I know)

thenewestkid 10y ago
Hi! Thanks for the comment, I think it's pretty constructive. The site is bigger because it is a SPA. It loads every static asset on start, compared to the HN approach which loads only the current page. The NX framework itself is 12kb zipped and 10kb minzipped. I agree, that it is not a typical use case, but it is starting to become a standard thing for new frameworks (like todoMVC). The point is to implement something that others implement too, to give a fair comparison to users (code).
- thenewestkid 10y ago
  After a second check: that extra 70kb (on top of the 12kb size of NX) is mostly from the FireBase and EventListener APIs that I use for real-time networking.

odbol_ 10y ago

A web framework that doesn't work on actual web browsers? What is the point of that? Supporting older browsers is like half the job.