# tastejs/hacker-news-pwas

HNPWA - Hacker News readers as Progressive Web Apps 📱

Repository: https://github.com/tastejs/hacker-news-pwas
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/hacker-news-pwas
Homepage: https://hnpwa.com
Language: HTML
License Family: other
Topics: hacker, news, progressive-web-app, prpl, code-splitting, lighthouse, hacker-news-reader
Archived: true
Last push: 2020-10-06T12:35:07+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3447, "days_push": 2157, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, archived, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2410, forks 205 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:44.319487+00:00)

## What it is
HNPWA is a curated collection of Hacker News reader implementations built as Progressive Web Apps using various JavaScript frameworks, serving as a spiritual successor to TodoMVC. Each implementation follows a loose specification covering app shell architecture, Lighthouse performance scores, offline support, and responsive design, making it a learning resource for comparing PWA techniques across frameworks.

## Use cases
- compare how react, vue, and preact implement progressive web apps
- learn the application shell pattern with real code examples
- find reference implementations that score 90+ on lighthouse
- study code splitting and prpl performance patterns
- see how service workers handle offline caching in practice
- benchmark time-to-interactive on low-end mobile devices
- pick a javascript framework by examining equivalent pwa apps

## When to choose
- you want to learn pwa best practices from working example apps
- you are evaluating frontend frameworks via a common app built in each
- you need reference code for app shell, offline caching, or ssr patterns

## When to avoid
- you need a production hacker news client for daily use
- you want an actively maintained project - last release was 2020
- you need a benchmark for framework performance rather than a learning tool

## Facets
- artifact type: learning-resource
- maturity: maintenance
- function: frontend-framework, web-framework, ssr, static-site-generator
- domain: web-development, frontend, developer-tools, tutorials
- platform: browser, cross-platform
- tags: progressive-web-app, pwa, hacker-news, service-worker, lighthouse, code-splitting, prpl, app-shell, reference-implementations, todomvc-successor, web-server

## Member repositories
- tastejs/hacker-news-pwas (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:44.319487+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:34:00.321122+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/tastejs/hacker-news-pwas (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:44.319487+00:00, sha 2590bc8c66af)
  - homepage: https://hnpwa.com (fetched 2026-08-29T10:14:06.569026+00:00, sha 0ad48ae72ee0)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.